Stacey Addison was released from East Timor after a four-month “nightmare,” in what started as a simple taxi ride while on a world tour.

Addison, 41, of Oregon was on a leg of an around-the-world trip in the tiny East Asian country when she was arrested after a stranger, who was sharing a taxi with her, picked up a package full of drugs.

Apparently, the stranger asked the taxi driver to stop the taxi to get a DHL package. After getting back into the taxi, police surrounded the vehicle and arrested the occupants because the stranger’s package held methamphetamine.

On Thursday, Addison was released from an East Timor prison, nearly four months after her initial arrest and appeared before reporters Thursday at the home of former East Timorese President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, who is hosting her temporarily at his home.

Addison has yet to leave the country because her passport has not been returned.

The U.S. State Department praised the decision, according to department spokesperson Jen Psaki, but confirmed that Addison remains in Timor-Leste where the government still retains her passport.

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Neither she not Ramos-Horta would comment on the case at Thursday’s press conference.

When asked what she would do when do did receive her passport, she said she would “go home.”

“I don’t think my mom would ever forgive me if I didn’t come home immediately and stay for a while,” she said.

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Addison’s mother, Bernadette Kero of Oregon, told CNN that the four-month ordeal has been a “nightmare.” On Thursday, she said her daughter’s release was “the best Christmas present I could imagine.