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Hope Solo has been criticized on social media following the release of her latest podcast, days after new police bodycam from her DWI arrest.
Solo, 41, was arrested on March 31 after being discovered in her car in a Winston-Salem, North Carolina Walmart parking lot. Her two-year-old twins, Lozen and Vittorio, were in the backseat of the car, and the engine was still running.
New footage released on Tuesday showed her being yanked from her car by police on the night of her DWI arrest after she passed out behind the wheel with her children in the back.
The ex-USWNT goalkeeper was later convicted and hit with a 30-day prison-sentence, which she did not have to serve because of the month she spent in rehab following the incident. She describes the night as ‘the biggest mistake of my life’.
Solo’s most recent podcast with sports analyst Sean Farnham was peppered Friday with queries and comments about the shocking footage.
One comment on the podcast, shared on Solo’s Instagram page to her 920,000 followers, read: ‘You should be thanking those officers for protecting your children not insulting them. The entitlement is huge!!!’
Hope Solo has been criticized on social media following the release of her latest podcast, days after new police bodycam from her DWI arrest
One fan said she ‘talked about everything but’ the Walmart parking lot incident in new podcast
Another wrote: ‘That video… you should be embarrassed by your actions… those officers possibly saved you and your children’s life that night.’
One more added: ‘Talked about everything but your arrest!’
While others demanded Solo says sorry. One social media user said: ‘You need to make a public apology to the officers that you treated so badly.
‘You looked terrible and showed how you are so entitled after endangering your kids proving that you aren’t a great mom as you say.’
Solo’s most recent podcast with sports analyst Sean Farnham (bottom) was peppered Friday
While others demanded Solo makes an apology following the new footage released this week
One said: ‘I heard you out. Even listened to your podcast. Disappointed in you though. You owned some of it but I certainly hope you reached out to that police officer to apologize for how you treated them. Straight shameful not a single bit of sorrow from you came out with that.’
Another continued: ‘How about you apologize to @the police department.’
The video from the March night, published by Queen City News, shows a police officer knocking on the driver’s window of the car before a startled Solo responds ‘Oh, my God’.
She is asked: ‘Hi, can you open the door for me? Are you OK? People were kind of concerned you guys were out here sleeping and want to make sure you were OK.’ Solo claims she had pulled over and claims her stop was: ‘Umm… because I took a nap’.
Earlier in the video, a startled Solo responded to officers through the window of her car
Solo was later yanked from her car while her two-year-old twins cried in the back
When asked how much she had to drink, the World Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist says: ‘It’s OK if I…’ before trailing off. She later responds to the same question ‘I’ve had not’ and ‘I’m perfectly fine, thank you sir’, adding that she has had ‘zero alcohol’ while scrolling through her phone.
Solo then takes a phone call.
‘I was just trying to take a nap because I’m so f***ing tired from driving. Yeah, I, I mean, I pulled over in a Walmart parking lot to take a nap. I have no idea why he’s here, but hang on,’ Solo says, speaking into her phone.
She is later pulled from the car, while her two-year-old twins cry in the back seats, after suggesting she would not submit to field sobriety tests.
Solo has two twins with former Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens. The children were in the car with her when she was arrested for DWI in March
Ex-US women’s national team keeper Solo was arrested March 31 on alcohol-related charges
After telling officers she was simply napping and declining to submit to tests, Solo is handcuffed.
Solo, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest female goalkeepers in history, lives with former NFL star husband Jerramy Stevens and twins Vittorio Genghis and Lozen Orianna Judith Stevens, in the town of Roaring Gap.
Following the March incident, the former soccer star decided to postpone her Hall of Fame induction ceremony from May to next year, writing: ‘I have contacted the Hall of Fame and respectfully requested a postponement of my Hall of Fame induction ceremony to 2023.
‘I will be voluntarily entering an in-patient alcohol treatment program to address my challenges with alcohol.’
According to an arrest warrant about the March incident, a passerby noticed Solo passed out behind the steering wheel for more than an hour with the vehicles engine running and the two children in the backseat.
A responding officer could smell alcohol, and the warrant said Solo refused a field sobriety test.
Solo was taken to the magistrate’s office, where she refused to take a Breathalyzer test, so police got a search warrant for a blood sample. Solo had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.24 percent, three times the legal limit.
Tests also showed that Solo had THC in her system, according to a police report.
She was eventually hit with three charges over the case: driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse. In July, she pleaded guilty to DWI. In exchange, her other two charges were dismissed.
Solo has had previous brushes with the law, including one in 2014 when she was arrested at her home in Washington for allegedly assaulting her nephew and a half-sister. That case was later dismissed after prosecution witnesses declined to testify against her.
Solo, pictured with her husband and one of their children has had multiple brushes with the law, including a 2014 arrest for allegedly assaulting her nephew and a half-sister
Solo was also unceremoniously kicked out of the national team in 2016, after she was dismissed during the Brazil Olympics for calling the Swedish team ‘cowards’ for taking a defensive stance against the defending gold medalists, ending a laudable playing career that was also marred by controversy.
She was suspended for 30 days in early 2015 after she and her husband were pulled over in a US Soccer-owned van and Stevens was charged with DUI.
She was also benched after publicly questioning coach Greg Ryan´s decision to start Briana Scurry against Brazil during the 2007 World Cup, comments many saw as a slight against Scurry.
Solo played 202 times with the national team, with 153 victories and an international-record 102 shutouts. She won a World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals with the team.
Solo made 202 appearances for the United States in her playing career, winning 153 games
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