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Mary Lou Retton I Was Almost Put on Life Support ... During Pneumonia Battle

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Mary Lou Retton is doing her first interview since being released from the hospital last year amid a scary battle with pneumonia -- and now, we're learning it was nearly deadly.

The ex-Olympic champion is set to do an interview with Hoda Kotb of 'Today' this week, and a teaser clip was released ... which features the images of her we've seen publicly in a long while, and it's somewhat startling to see that she has breathing tubes hooked up to her.

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Hoda notes that MLR is still on oxygen, which Mary confirms .