(Gray News) – A former Olympic athlete and coach said her life is a “living nightmare” after she forgot to scan items at a Walmart self-checkout lane.

It all happened on March 28 at a Walmart in Indiana when an employee observed a customer, identified as 48-year-old Meaggan Pettipiece, taking $67.71 worth of asparagus and ham without checking out at the self-checkout counter, WTHR reported.

Petticoat told the National Post that she did not know that the items were not scanned after she paid for $176 worth of groceries.

She was questioned by police and found to have two Zofran brand ondansetron tablets in her handbag.

According to court documents, she did not have a valid prescription for the pills. However, she told police that the medication belonged to her assistant and forgot the pills were there. WTHR reported.

When police searched her vehicle, they also found three THC vaporizers. The vaporizers contained neither nicotine nor THC, she said.

She was charged with theft, possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance.

At the time of her arrest, Pettipiece was the head coach of the Valparaiso University softball team, but she resigned a few days after a flood of headlines.

After months of litigation, all charges were dropped on September 19, according to the Indiana Department of Justice.

Even though the charges were dropped, Pettipiece said her career had already been damaged.

“Five months have passed, a real nightmare. I lost my career, I lost my job, I lost the life I had built for myself and it was really difficult,” she said.

Pettipiece played softball for Canada at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and was an alternate for the 2004 Olympic team.

The dismissal of the charges means she can return to teaching, but she is considering a new career as a softball umpire.

“I’m not sure about the future,” she said. “For now, I’m going to stay home and focus on my kids. I want to figure out what direction I’m going to go in.”

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