Mary Lou Retton Darling of the LA Olympics on donkdown warning

Reported by her daughter is in ICU on a ventilator with severe bilateral Pneumonia. (Sounds pretty similar to what happened to me with Covid in 3/21). Anyway much like I was at the time it’s looking bad for her. She’s mid 50s so that’s going against her. No word on how she got so sick no mention of Covid but guess she didn’t get that Prevnar shot.

Going to sound weird given all the stories of these things going sideways but expect a GoFundMe for Retton. She has no medical insurance. So her bills have to be astronomical. Mine were well over 200k for my 10days in the ICU and close to a 1/2M when all was said and done for my near month stay prior to insurance which still paid almost 1/2 that and pretty sure the rest of it went to the Feds in DC since they were providing a lot of gap coverage between billing and insurance payments.

Is she vaxxed? That would explain it.

How does someone who made millions in endorsement deals in the 80s and public speaking in the 90s not have health insurance?

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How does someone who made millions in endorsement deals in the 80s and public speaking in the 90s not have health insurance?

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Also looks like she's either broke or close to it.

Not only did she apparently not handle the money very well, but why isn't she still on the public speaking circuit? She could still command a pretty good fee for appearances and speeches, especially because a lot of today's upper management was part of her generation when she won the Olympics.

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How does someone who made millions in endorsement deals in the 80s and public speaking in the 90s not have health insurance?

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Also looks like she's either broke or close to it.

Not only did she apparently not handle the money very well, but why isn't she still on the public speaking circuit? She could still command a pretty good fee for appearances and speeches, especially because a lot of today's upper management was part of her generation when she won the Olympics.

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Can you track the GoFundMe?

I expect she will do fine with donors and I think that’s great. Well heeled people love the Olympics. LA 2028? Lotsa luck.

If she pulls through, hope see goes to OnlyFans.

I think she came and spoke at my elementary school, or some other gymnastics bitch, not sure.

Came in doing some tumbling and then proceeded to talk about the Olympics, not doing drugs etc.

LOL America letting a gold medal sweetheart die of AIDS.

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Also looks like she's either broke or close to it.

Not only did she apparently not handle the money very well, but why isn't she still on the public speaking circuit? She could still command a pretty good fee for appearances and speeches, especially because a lot of today's upper management was part of her generation when she won the Olympics.

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Can you track the GoFundMe?

I expect she will do fine with donors and I think that’s great. Well heeled people love the Olympics. LA 2028? Lotsa luck.

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Family is not using GoFundMe. SpotFund is the deal. Personally never heard of this competitor. Over 6x oversubscribed!

https://www.spotfund.com/story/a2e05...2-ea579f7eaab7

Mary Lou is not broke nor close to it, her kids don’t want to pay those medical bills and reduce their inheritance.

Tour of her home last year.

https://www.homedit.com/mary-lou-ret...0square%20feet.

Probably believes in holistic medicine or some shit. She also has more than one house….so sell one to pay your bills or go beg.

Beg is certainly the easier way to go. Hopefully the family donates any left over to a worthy cause.

Sure smells like GoFundMe fraud.

Surprised that we don't see more once beloved celebrities pulling a Chaps to get some cushion for that monthly nut.

She has beautiful teeth , hear she is getting better. Think she raised over 400 k on go fund me.

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Mary Lou is not broke nor close to it, her kids don’t want to pay those medical bills and reduce their inheritance.

Tour of her home last year.

https://www.homedit.com/mary-lou-ret...0square%20feet.

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What a hustle. $438k and now she’s making an amazing recovery. Shocker.

This makes Jami Lafay blush. Net worth estimated at $2 million and didn’t want to pay the $800 a month for insurance and gullible people bankroll her idiocy

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Mary Lou is not broke nor close to it, her kids don’t want to pay those medical bills and reduce their inheritance.

Tour of her home last year.

https://www.homedit.com/mary-lou-ret...0square%20feet.

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What a hustle. $438k and now she’s making an amazing recovery. Shocker.

This makes Jami Lafay blush. Net worth estimated at $2 million and didn’t want to pay the $800 a month for insurance and gullible people bankroll her idiocy

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Not sure where your buying insurance. I know gainfully employed people paying $300 a paycheck through their employer so around $600 a month for their portion as an employee if they had to pay Cobra due to seperation voluntary or forced, it would be like 2-3x that.

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Mary Lou is not broke nor close to it, her kids don’t want to pay those medical bills and reduce their inheritance.

Tour of her home last year.

https://www.homedit.com/mary-lou-ret...0square%20feet.

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What a hustle. $438k and now she’s making an amazing recovery. Shocker.

This makes Jami Lafay blush. Net worth estimated at $2 million and didn’t want to pay the $800 a month for insurance and gullible people bankroll her idiocy

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You're not kidding. Jami kicking herself right now for not getting into gymnastics in the early 90s.

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Mary Lou is not broke nor close to it, her kids don’t want to pay those medical bills and reduce their inheritance.

Tour of her home last year.

https://www.homedit.com/mary-lou-ret...0square%20feet.

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What a hustle. $438k and now she’s making an amazing recovery. Shocker.

This makes Jami Lafay blush. Net worth estimated at $2 million and didn’t want to pay the $800 a month for insurance and gullible people bankroll her idiocy

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It truly is idiotic she did not have insurance, and that people are actually funding her idiocy. I know for a 100% fact these ex-Olympians can make bank on the speaking circuit. About 15 years ago I was at a conference where Mike Eurozione was a keynote speaker. He gave a fairly average speech talking about the 1980 Hockey Team as captain. There were about 500 people in the audience and I'd guestimate 350 had no idea who he was. I later found out he was paid $20,000 and a first class ticket and a hotel suite. Point is dea Mary-Lou has had plenty of speaking opportunities over the years, if she wanted speaking gigs she could get them. My guess is she is either lazy or has addiction issues. She is fucking creepy with that manufactured smile. Regardless, there are plenty of corporations that would pay her to give a motivational speech just to play the opening sequence on an overhead projector of her vaulting to the gold while walking on the stage waving. It's the same bullshit when Eurozione walked on stage with him scoring the game winning goal, audience ate it up even though most had no idea about the 1980 Olympics.

She also has a company called MLR Entertainment, not sure what she does with that.

Something isn’t right with her situation. Gonna be on the today show tomorrow, they did a clip, she is on oxygen and looks like shit.

Lifelong athlete, non smoker, mid 50’s.

Rare pneumonia, gotta go with the AIDS.

Stop getting the vax.

Over $450k but they won’t say what they are doing with it….greasy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...t/72132567007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6Fi_Jegnc

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Something isn’t right with her situation. Gonna be on the today show tomorrow, they did a clip, she is on oxygen and looks like shit.

Lifelong athlete, non smoker, mid 50’s.

Rare pneumonia, gotta go with the AIDS.

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I would guess it's early health complications due to steroid use during her time as an athlete. Just a guess though...

Laughed at this story yesterday. America’s little sweetheart tooling around town shitfaced with a wine bottle in passenger seat of her Porsche paid for by suckers


https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...ed-charged-dui


Put me down for that Shiloh pig getting popped for meth by 2028. lol at crowdfunding scams for anything besides verified by doctor kids

What a fall from grace.

Prior to the gofundme nonsense, everyone had fond memories of her from the '80s. She could have milked that for the rest of her life, lived comfortably, stayed out of trouble, and things would've been great.

Instead she runs a gofundme semi-scam and drives drunk.

I have to admit... I didn't see this one coming.

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What a fall from grace.

Prior to the gofundme nonsense, everyone had fond memories of her from the '80s. She could have milked that for the rest of her life, lived comfortably, stayed out of trouble, and things would've been great.

Instead she runs a gofundme semi-scam and drives drunk.

I have to admit... I didn't see this one coming.

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You can take the athlete out of West Virginia, but you can't....

Don't let your daughters get into gymnastics.

Psychological abuse, eating disorders, predatory doctors and loads of complicit adults are but a few of the risk factors.

Not sure where America's darling went wrong but guessing the path to Olympic stardom was equally fraught back then

Zero respect for anyone who gets a DUI, she blew it, screw her.

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Don't let your daughters get into gymnastics.

Psychological abuse, eating disorders, predatory doctors and loads of complicit adults are but a few of the risk factors.

Not sure where America's darling went wrong but guessing the path to Olympic stardom was equally fraught back then

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A girl my age, who lived up the street, was in gymnastics as we were growing up.

She was a smart and nice girl, though her mother (who also worked as a substitute teacher at my school) was super obnoxious and awful.

Anyway, I was with her through elementary, junior high, and high school. Never knew her super well, but she was in a lot of my classes and obviously got to know her a little bit over all those years. All of a sudden, in high school, she wasn't on the gymnastics team anymore. She had been on the junior high team, and also had been competing in all kinds of non-school-related gymnastics meets. However, in something like 10th grade, she was completely out of gymnastics. Not on the high school team, not going to meets anymore, just completely out of it.

I heard that she totally burnt out and told her mom she was done.

The mom was really domineering, unreasonable, and obnoxious, so I can only imagine how tough this was for the girl to break it to her. But she did the right thing. No idea what she's doing now, but I'm sure she's better off for having quit.

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