Marilouise says that she went into a manic state and started hanging out with criminals. Later, she herself was taken by police with amphetamines in her blood on a rake.
"Even though it felt like my life was falling apart, it wasn't," she says on the program "Story: The Convicted Chief of Police" She still denies the drug offence, but lost her job, but events brought her to deal with her mental health, which she had struggled with throughout her life.