Olympic legend Mary Lou Retton arrested for DUI

Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton has been charged with driving underneath the affect in West Virginia.

Retton, 57, was stopped in Marion County, West Virginia, on Could 17 and charged with one misdemeanor depend of “driving underneath affect of alcohol, managed substances, or medication,” on-line courtroom information present.

Retton was launched the day of her arrest after posting $1,500 bond.

She has not but issued a plea, courtroom information present.

Retton’s legal professional, Edmund J. Rollo, declined to touch upon the case when reached Tuesday by ABC Information.

Retton’s arrest comes two years after the gold-medal profitable gymnast overcame what she would later describe as a life-threatening battle with pneumonia that required a virtually two-week keep within the intensive care unit.

In an interview final Could, Retton stated she was nonetheless struggling issues from the 2023 well being scare that left her hospitalized.

“I nonetheless have a tough time respiratory and getting breath to talk,” Retton advised “Leisure Tonight,” including on the time that she remained on supplemental oxygen. “I am a speaker [and] I have never been in a position to actually work as a result of I do not know if I can rise up on stage and do an hourlong speak like I’ve usually executed for 40 years. That is irritating. It has been arduous, I’ve to say.”

Retton stated within the interview that she battled a “uncommon type of pneumonia.” Pneumonia is a sort of lung an infection that may be attributable to quite a lot of components, reminiscent of micro organism, fungi, a parasite or a virus, in accordance with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

Throughout her sickness, Retton’s 4 daughters arrange a web based fundraiser for her medical payments. The fundraiser drew some criticism, with some individuals questioning why a legendary athlete who was as soon as the duvet star for Wheaties’ boxed cereal would fall on arduous monetary instances.

“They have been simply attempting to maintain me,” Retton advised “ET” of her daughters’ fundraising efforts.

Noting that she lacked medical insurance when the fundraiser was began, Retton stated in response to the criticism, “You are welcome to, you realize, your opinion. However you were not in that state of affairs. My daughters stepped as much as the plate and so they saved my life.”

Retton is most well-known for her efficiency within the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the place she scored a collection of excellent 10s to turn into the first-ever American to win an Olympic particular person all-round gold.

Retton additionally received two extra silver medals and two bronze medals on the Los Angeles Olympics, making her probably the most embellished athlete of that Olympics, in accordance with her official Olympics biography.

Retton has remained an iconic American sports activities hero within the a long time since and was inducted into the Worldwide Gymnastics Corridor of Fame in 1997.

In 2018, Retton competed on season 27 of ABC’s dancing competitors present “Dancing with the Stars.”