Mary Lou Retton's 2025 DUI bust on bodycam

[1srelluc]

On May 17, 2025, officers in Fairmont received reports of a white Porsche driving all over the roadway. They found Mary Lou Retton in an AutoZone parking lot with a screw-top wine bottle in the passenger seat and an oxygen tank on her back.

She told the officers she was an Olympic gold medalist and that she could do balance beam. Then she failed all three sobriety tests. She refused the breathalyzer because ‘they say don’t blow.’ She called herself West Virginia’s first daughter.

She pled no contest. She was fined $100.

Damn, talk about a fall from grace.....She's 58 now and had the O2 due to a bout with pneumonia she was recovering from.

Hey, maybe the company that made the screw-top wine can get her to do a commercial.

 

[odanny]

She was one of the first Olympians to really cash in with advertisers, she might have been the first. I could not stand looking at her picture in 1984, it was everywhere.

 

[citygator]

Not sure why people love to revel in someone’s fall. She left lasting memories for many. Hope she gets better.

 

[Cellblock2429]

/----/ From another thread:

Dekster​

"Olympic gold medalist and West Virginia native Mary Lou Retton is in an Intensive Care Unit and “fighting for her life” as she battles pneumonia.


According to a *spotfund set up by her daughter, McKenna Kelley, Retton has been in the ICU for “over a week now” and has not been able to breathe on her own. Kelley said that out of respect for her mother’s privacy, she would not disclose any more details, but she did say that Retton is uninsured."

 

[odanny]

It's another athlete rags, to riches, to rags, story, and these are all too common in this country. You have to be careful and manage your money you made while young, and if you drink too much, that don't usually happen.

 

[my2¢]

According to a *spotfund set up by her daughter, McKenna Kelley, Retton has been in the ICU for “over a week now” and has not been able to breathe on her own. Kelley said that out of respect for her mother’s privacy, she would not disclose any more details, but she did say that Retton is uninsured."

It's another athlete rags, to riches, to rags, story, and these are all too common in this country. You have to be careful and manage your money you made while young, and if you drink too much, that don't usually happen.

Hopefully now that she drives a Porshe, she is able to afford health insurance and doesn't have to rely on crowd funding to pay for her medical needs.

 

[1srelluc]

She was one of the first Olympians to really cash in with advertisers, she might have been the first. I could not stand looking at her picture in 1984, it was everywhere.

No shit....The other gold metal winner from WV that year was a skeet shooter.

Retton got a Corvette from WV, the other gold medalist got squat.

Her commercials made me want to puke coat-hangers.