Hope Solo talks DWI arrest: 'I was mother-shamed around the world'

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Former U.S. women’s soccer star Hope Solo opened up about her DWI arrest in North Carolina and the discipline that followed in a recent podcast episode.

Solo pleaded guilty last month to DWI after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in a shopping center parking lot in March with her 2-year-old twins in the car. She was also charged with misdemeanor child abuse and resisting a public officer at the time. According to the Winston Salem-Journal, her attorney Chris Clifton said the latter charges were voluntarily dismissed.

She entered an alcohol treatment program, received a 24-month suspended sentence, was fined $2,500 and was forced to pay the cost of the lab tests, which amounted to $600.

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Hope Solo looks on prior to the match against Colombia at Talen Energy Stadium on April 10, 2016, in Chester, Pennsylvania. (Rich Barnes/Getty Images)

The two-time Olympic gold medalist said on the "Hope Solo Speaks" podcast she was trying to move on from the arrest and explained she believed drinking may have been connected to postpartum depression and the lack of support in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

"I didn't think I needed help," she said. "And I certainly wasn't going to ask for it. At the time, I didn't know that I was only doing a disservice to my family. I thought that I could white-knuckle it. But the reality is that nobody gets to live without asking for help. My sense of strength and pride became my two worst enemies. And I found myself living the worst night of my life. I let alcohol get the better of me in this moment on this godawful day, and I will suffer the