Newly released police video shows Mary Lou Retton flaunted her celebrity status during her arrest earlier this year ... at one point yelling to officers, "I'm West Virginia's First Daughter!"
00:00So, Mary Lou Retton, the famed Olympic gymnast from 1984, she got a DUI back in May.
00:06The body cam has now been released, and it is something.
00:11It is something. It is sad, and at times it is sad, and at times it is something we've seen
00:17with a lot of celebrity arrests, particularly DUI stops.
00:23It seems like this can't help but to let the officer know,
00:28Do you know who I am?
00:29Who they are. By the way, I was going to say I've never seen it work, but I guess if it worked...
00:35You wouldn't know it.
00:36We wouldn't know it because they would have let them go.
00:38It probably has worked at some point.
00:39So it probably has worked, and maybe that's why they keep doing it.
00:41It did not work for Mary Lou Retton.
00:43So you're going to see an oxygen...
00:47She had oxygen tubes in her nose because she has a portable oxygen dispenser with her.
00:53Now, we're not sure why... A year and a half or so ago, she actually had double pneumonia
00:58and was very sick, but that was a year and a half ago,
01:01so we're not sure why she has the tubes now.
01:05But they found liquor bottles in her car and pulled her out for a sobriety test.
01:11A bunch of field sobriety tests, some of which you would think an Olympic gymnast would fare fairly well.
01:19Well, she did, actually, up to a point.
01:23Yes, watch.
01:24I want you to not jump, don't step off the line.
01:27It's going to be heel to toe.
01:28Touch your heel to your toe, okay?
01:29And I want you to count out loud.
01:31I know.
01:33Okay, well, let's heel to toe, okay?
01:36Keep your hands down to your side.
01:39You're going to count out loud until I tell you to stop, okay?
01:43You may begin whenever you're ready.
01:44No, I can't do it.
01:48You can't do it?
01:49Go ahead and put your hands around your back for me.
01:51No!
01:51Yeah, you're under arrest.
01:52Yeah, you're under arrest.
01:54This is not...
01:55No, I'm not!
01:55No, don't be hitting.
01:57Come on, this will be fine.
01:58Oh, my God!
02:01No.
02:02No.
02:02Ms. Retton, please don't.
02:05Oh, my God.
02:06Are you kidding me?
02:07No.
02:07I have no choice, Ms. Retton.
02:09And I'm in West Virginia.
02:10I know.
02:12No, you don't know.
02:13He's too young to know who I am.
02:16I mean, really?
02:20You are?
02:21I know who you are.
02:23I know.
02:24I know you know who I am.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Come on.
02:29I got to do my job no matter who you are.
02:31Oh, my God.
02:32West Virginia's first daughter.
02:34I know.
02:35Well, you know, Charles, I didn't really notice it until this time.
02:38That she was already...
02:39She said, I'm a gold medalist.
02:41So she dropped it during the test itself.
02:44Yeah.
02:45Didn't work, for sure.
02:47Mm-hmm.
02:48But, boy, I'll tell you.
02:50Now, this is resolved.
02:53She actually pled no contest.
02:55She got a $100 fine.
02:56We're not sure if they required an alcohol education class, which they typically do.
03:01Yeah.
03:01But it's...
03:03I got to say, it's sad because I so vividly remember what a force she was in 1984 and how she made that sport in a way.
03:15There was obviously a whole lot more of that body cam footage that we couldn't show.
03:19But when she was at the station, she actually was refusing to take her oxygen, and they were trying to get her to take it.
03:26And at one point, she said, I'll just die in here.
03:28I'm going to die in here.
03:29So the entire time, really, you guys saw it a little bit briefly when they were trying to put the cuffs on her.
03:34She was like, no, no, no, not me.
03:35No, no.
03:36The entire time, and this body cam footage is close to an hour long, and it's almost the entire time she said, you can't arrest me.
03:41You shouldn't be arresting me.
03:42Why are you doing this?
03:42And then when they finally get her in the jail, she's refusing to take oxygen.
03:45She wants to be put in the cell and asking to die.
03:48So it was just a really tough look, like you said, Harvey, for one of America's best legends.
03:53And has she said anything since the arrest about what her health is like?
03:58No.
03:59Aside from the drinking, but just why she still has this oxygen that she's carrying around.
04:04Yeah, we don't know.
04:05We just assume that it's a fallout from the pneumonia, right?
04:08Because that was a really serious health care.
04:09I remember for a while there, there was talk that she might be dying.
04:12She might die.
04:13So I assume that's why, but as far as statements that she released publicly, she's only released one, and it was after she reached the plea deal with prosecutors.
04:21And it basically said, look, my actions that night were terrible, and I need to be better going forward.
04:25Wow.
04:26You know, I just cannot get over it.
04:28Edward, my recollection is, wasn't she like 16?
04:32Yeah.
04:32She was really young.
04:33She's 57 now?
04:3557, correct.
04:36But wasn't she?
04:36She was like 16 when she was in the Olympics.
04:39And again, it was 41 years ago, yeah.
04:41She, look, I'm not saying, in no way am I trying to diminish Simone Biles, because Simone Biles may be the best gymnast.
04:48Be careful.
04:48She may be the best gymnast that ever lived.
04:51Yep.
04:51But in terms of just...
04:52Any time when you start out saying, in no way am I trying to diminish her, but I'm probably about to.
04:57No, I just gave her credit as the best gymnast that ever lived.
05:00Okay.
05:00Mary Lou Retton, I think, in her time was even bigger as...
05:05You can't say, but the difference is, and Mary Lou Retton, listen, I watched the Olympics that year also.
05:10I get it, but I also remember that...
05:12You were a kid.
05:12Yes, I was, proudly so, but the Russians were not in that competition.
05:20And that was a big deal.
05:22That was a big deal.
05:23It was a big deal.
05:24But whoever showed up, she was the best who showed up, no doubt.
05:27She was a huge star.
05:29She was a Bruce Jenner-type star, at least.
05:32I mean, you can say that because she was on the Wheaties box, yes.
05:35She was on the Wheaties box.
05:36Okay.
05:36Hey, it's Mason, and the video was very, very sad, but in this day and age, you cannot drink and drive.
05:47You just can't.
05:49Does West Virginia not have Ubers or a cab or a horse and buggy?
05:54I mean, you just can't get away with that in this day and age.
05:58And I don't know why she's telling everyone she's West Virginia's first daughter.
06:02Does she think she's Jennifer Garner?
06:04It's just, it's not a good situation all the way around.
06:09No, it's not.
06:10And the question you raised about Ubers, we have been asking that for 20 years here.
06:15Right.
06:16Over and over and over again.
06:18It has made it so much easier to avoid that, and yet.
