A young woman serving time for deliberately causing an accident that proved fatal to another driver now says she was not motivated by a suicide pact - she was just trying to get attention.

Brenda Pelletier-Belanger was sent to jail for four years for involuntary homicide.

18 at the time, she told investigators that she and the 17-year old friend riding with her wanted to die, so she veered into the path of Jacques Beauchemin on a road near Mirabel in 2014.

Beauchemin died instantly. Pelletier-Belanger and her passenger escaped serious injury.

Now Pelletier-Belanger has told the parole board that she wasn't suicidal, she just wanted to be injured in order to get some sympathy and attention.

The board noted that she was heavily motivated by her need to win "likes" on social media.

The parole board did, however, give her permission to move to a halfway house after spending a year behind bars.

Her release to a supervised setting so soon after conviction came as a shock to Beauchemin's widow, who told the Journal de Montreal that she was floored by the news.

