Susan Lung, 42, was found passed out at the wheel of her car after drinking two casks of wine after her husband announced he was leaving her.
Police found Ms Lung asleep at the wheel of her Audi in Sydney’s North Shore in November last year where she blew 0.445 – nearly nine times the legal limit.
Ms Lung, was getting her two kids ready for school when her husband of 24 years told her he was leaving her.
Susan Lung (pictured) was found asleep at the wheel of her car after drinking two caks of wine when her husband left her
Ms Lung asleep at the wheel of her Audi in Sydney’s North Shore in November last year where she blew 0.445 – nearly nine times the legal limit
Ms Lung got the kids in the car and dropped them off before driving to a nearby bus stop, and turned off her car.
The thought of her husband leaving her got the best of Ms Lung as she sat in the car thinking and asking herself, ‘What’s happened to my life? Where did it go wrong?” she told 60 Minutes.
She then remembered she had wine in the back of the car, and from 10am until 12.30pm, drank almost two entire casks of wine.
Asked in a 60 Minutes interview, Ms Lung was asked if she is an alcoholic.
‘No, not at all. I’ve got a really good job. I go to work every day,’ she replied.
The mother hit back at accusations she was an alcoholic, instead blaming the stress of holding down a full-time job and raising kids.
‘It’s not illegal to sit in your car and drink,’ she told presenter Alison Langdon.
‘Working full-time, doing the kids (and) never having a day off is hard.’
The mother-of-two (pictured) denies she is an alcoholic saying she is too busy to drink
Ms Lung (far right) escaped the drink driving charges because the officer who took her blood-alcohol test couldn’t prove she was driving while intoxicated
Ms Lung evidently isn’t the only one turning to alcohol to blow off steam, with startling figures revealing nearly one in five middle aged women drink excessively, the show reports.
She escaped the drink driving charges because the officer who took her blood-alcohol test couldn’t prove that Ms Lung was driving while intoxicated.
‘I didn’t escape jail because of a loophole,’ she said.
‘The police officer assumed that I had been driving. It was all an assumption.’
Ms Lung has previous drink-driving offences.
She says she didn’t escape jail because of a loophole, but because the police officer assumed she was drink driving