Hope Solo is taking accountability for her actions. The 40-year-old former U.S. Soccer goalkeeper has pled guilty to driving while impaired at a hearing in connection to her March arrest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and has offered a public statement on what she's calling, «the worst mistake of my life.»According to numerous reports, her two-year-old twins were in the car when she was approached by authorities in a Walmart parking lot.
At the time, she was booked for impaired driving (DWI), resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse.Solo entered a guilty plea for DWI on Monday, while her attorney, Chris Clifton, said the remaining two charges were voluntarily dismissed, according to the . «It’s been a long road, but I’m slowly coming back from taking time off.
I pride myself in motherhood and what my husband and I have done day in and day out for over two years throughout the pandemic with two-year old twins,» Solo wrote in a statement on Instagram. «While I’m proud of us, it was incredibly hard and I made a huge mistake.
Easily the worst mistake of my life. »I underestimated what a destructive part of my life alcohol had become," she continued. «The upside of making a mistake this big is that hard lessons are learned quickly.
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