I'm safe Mum so just leave me alone, pleads the 'missing' Miss Brazil

And she says she told her mother, who called in the police: "Just leave me alone."

Taiza Thomsen, 24, who represented Brazil in the 2003 Miss World contest, was reported missing by her worried family in January after she failed to make contact for five months following a visit to Britain last year.

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Interpol was alerted amid concerns that she might have been kidnapped by a sex-trafficking gang.

But Taiza said she never sold her body for sex in the two months she worked as a stripper under the name Sol (Sun) at the Sunset Strip club in London's Soho.

She insisted:"Many Brazilian girls work at these clubs and, although they dance in the nude, they're not prostitutes.

"I did it to pay a friend I owed money to. She needed cash urgently because she was ill. I didn't even like the job and the club didn't pay me the amount of money they initially promised. I ended up earning less than £500 a week. But it was the only job I could find."

The former model and aspiring actress said she left her home in Sao Paulo because she feared for her life. "I was being stalked and I received a number of death threats but I don't want to go into it. I don't want to talk about it.

"I had a few disagreements with my family which left me really hurt so I didn't make contact with them.

"My mother has messed things up by going to the police. Now my life is a living hell.

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"There were missing posters of my face plastered all over London and as a result it's been difficult to get work."

Taiza said she was detained by immigration officials because her visa expired in December.

"I was imprisoned for 30 days until I clarified all this palaver brought on by my mother. Now I just want to be left alone to get on with the new life I've built for myself in Britain."

But she refused to confirm reports that she was planning to marry her Polish boyfriend to prevent her deportation.

Scotland Yard said the case had been closed as Taiza was no longer considered a missing person.

A spokesman said they were now satisfied she had not been the subject of pressure or coercion by anyone.