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Ottawa’s Cortney Rattray-Johnson, serving eight years for selling fentanyl, has launched a GoFundMe account to finance beauty school once she’s released from prison.

Rattray-Johnson, 29, was arrested in 2017 for drug trafficking alongside her boyfriend, the ringleader in a drug-and-guns operation. She pleaded guilty early on and expressed remorse for the toll the “death and misery” trade took on Ottawa’s most vulnerable.

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She promised the judge that she’d come out of prison a reformed woman and is now trying to crowdfund the schooling for a job in esthetics.

In her plea for $8,000, Rattray-Johnson introduces herself by saying she was raised in a good, middle-class family.

She trained as a hair stylist but a car accident derailed her career and she turned to fast money, only to get busted for selling hard drugs, including deadly fentanyl. (Half of the heroin she was selling was cut with fentanyl.)