In an interview with Annie M. Peterson for the AP, Abby Wambach says she abused alcohol and prescription drugs for years. Among the substances she recounts are vodka, Vicodin, Ambien, and Adderall.
It all culminated in her arrest for DUI in Portland in April of this year. "That night getting arrested was one of the best things that has ever happened to me,” said Wambach in the interview. “Because if I don't get so publicly shamed and publicly humiliated, I don't think I wake up.”
Perhaps the DUI was due to a confluence of big life events all ending; she was newly retired and, according to the AP report, her marriage was in trouble.