Mary Lou Retton he thinks his family deserves a gold medal.
The Olympian defended her daughters' decision to start a crowdfunding fund to pay the medical bills she racked up while battling a rare form of pneumonia, which landed her in hospital in October .
“They didn't deserve this,” Mary Lou said Entertainment tonight in an interview published on May 22. “They were just trying to take care of me. I don't care about the naysayers. There are trolls everywhere. It's what makes us America. Everyone has an opinion, but it is what it is.”
The former athlete, who shares daughters Shayla28, McKenna26, Skyla23 i Emma21 years old, with ex-husband Shannon Kelley— went on to explain that she struggled to pay her mounting medical bills due to the impact of COVID-19 on her speaking job and the cost of her 2018 divorce.
“I was in the ICU for a month, like the bills were and are still coming in,” he continued. “You can't imagine from ambulance bills to everything.”
Insisting that all the money went directly to her treatment, Mary Lou, who retired from gymnastics in 1986 after winning Team USA's first gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, added that no he could have overcome his condition. without the thoughtful actions of his daughters.
