Olympian legend Mary-Lou Retton appears noticeably weary in her mugshot after being found with a screw-top wine bottle inside her Porsche.

The photo obtained by Daily Mail shows the 57-year-old moments after she was arrested for DUI in her home state of West Virginia in May.

Video of her arrest shows her carrying her oxygen tank during the arrest. 

Tanned Retton looks disheveled with puffy eyes, wearing a yellow t-shirt and gold jewelry.

This incident sharply contrasts with her elegant presence at her daughter’s wedding in Dallas at the end of June, where she confidently avoided alcohol throughout the celebration.

Dubbed ‘America’s Sweetheart,’ she was admitted to the ICU in 2023 after contracting a rare form of pneumonia, which she reported left her lungs damaged and dependent on oxygen tubes for breathing.

However, the tubes are not visible in the mugshot, taken on May 17, after she was arrested, and refused to have her blood tested for alcohol.

She appeared at Marion County Magistrates Court in Fairmont, West Virginia, after the arrest, entering a no-contest plea to a non-aggravated DUI charge, receiving a $100 fine – the standard amount for a first-time offense. 

The shocking lead-up to her bleary-eyed mugshots began on May 17 when highway police pulled her over and found her slurring her words behind the wheel of her Porsche. 

Witness Alison Ralston said in a statement that she was driving from Bridgeport to Fairmont and once on the interstate ‘noticed the car in front of me swerve a little’.

‘So, I got around the car and kept driving,’ she said.

Right before the construction near the White Hall exit, the same car almost rear-ended the car beside me, and that’s when I got suspicious.

‘I stayed near the car to see if it was still swerving, and it was,’ she added.

‘We both got off at the Downtown exit and I got behind the car.’

Ralston said she stayed behind Retton’s car so she could get the license plate number and car type and then she called the police.

‘I was on the phone with 911 when we both turned left on to Merchant Street. The car pulled into the Auto Zone, and I kept going.

‘The police took over from there.’

Once cops arrived on the scene, they noted she had a ‘screw top container of wine’ on the passenger seat of her car when they approached her.

Court documents obtained by DailyMail.com revealed that the West Virginia native had ‘the odor of alcohol’ coming from her while sitting in the driver’s seat of her still-running car.

Retton, who wowed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, winning a gold medal, two silvers and two bronzes, failed all three phases of the standard field sobriety test and refused a roadside preliminary breath test, as well as a secondary chemical test of her blood.

Regardless of her refusal, she was charged in Marion County for ‘driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs,’ according to court records.

She was released after personally posting a $1,500 bond. 

It would take a month for Retton to issue an apology, telling People Magazine after her June 10 court hearing: ‘I take full responsibility for my actions,’

‘What happened was completely unacceptable,’ she added through her attorney Edmund Rollo. ‘I make no excuses. To my family, friends and my fans: I have let you down and for that I am deeply sorry.

‘I am determined to learn and grow from this experience and I am committed to making positive changes in my life. I truly appreciate your concern, encouragement and continued support.’

In addition, she asked for ‘privacy as she moves forward with her personal and professional life’.

The former gymnast kept a low profile after her brush with police – but resurfaced at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden on June 29 – six weeks after her arrest –to attend the wedding of her youngest daughter, Emma Kelley, to her college sweetheart. 

Retton looked strong and fit in an over-the-shoulder sparkly midnight blue dress as she shepherded 23-year-old Emma’s dozen bridesmaids around on golf carts at the arboretum where they all posed for wedding photos in the 94-degree heat. 

At one point, Retton’s ex-husband Shannon Kelley, a former University of Texas quarterback-turned-businessman, came out on the arm of a bridesmaid to pose with his daughter, shouting that he was ‘keeping his eyes closed’ until he came up to her and saw her in her wedding dress.

Retton and Kelley, who divorced in 2018 after 27 years of marriage, walked down the aisle again together at their daughter’s wedding. At 6′ 1′, he towered 16 inches taller than his petite ex.

And although she showed up in all smiles and seemed cordial with her daughter Emma and three eldest Shayla, 30, McKenna, 28, and Skyla, 24, Mary Lou has been absent from many of their social media posts in the past six months.

This follows Daily Mail’s report in May that family members in both West Virginia and Texas were concerned about Retton’s arrest and confused about why she left her $550,000 post-divorce home in Boerne, Texas, apparently without telling her relatives, to drive back to her native West Virginia.

Retton is originally from Fairmont, West Virginia, and has split her time between the Mountain State and Texas, where she’s been based since 2012. 

Retton was  hospitalized in the ICU in 2023 with a rare pneumonia that she said scarred her lungs and forced her to use oxygen tubes to breathe.

Her daughter McKenna posted an announcement shortly after her mother came home to recover that the family was accepting donations on Spotfund to help with medical bills after her hospitalization.

McKenna said her mother, who in her heyday had numerous commercial endorsements and was the first female athlete pictured on the Wheaties cereal box, had not been able to afford medical insurance.

About $500,000 was raised in donations, but the family soon drew criticism after refusing to clarify where the donations would be going, while Retton’s claim to not have insurance was also doubted by some.

‘They didn’t deserve that,’ Retton said in May when asked about the backlash her daughters received.

‘They were just trying to take care of me. I don’t care about the naysayers. There are trolls everywhere. It’s what makes us America. Everybody’s got an opinion, but it is what it is.’