A woman caught drink-driving told a Wanganui judge she "lost the plot" because she did not have long to live.
"I basically got told that I wouldn't make it to next Christmas and lost the plot, so it was my mistake.
"It was a stupid mistake," Erin Maree Syme said in Whanganui District Court this week.
The 54-year-old was at a routine traffic stop on August 27 and gave a blood alcohol reading of 209mg, plus or minus 11mg.
The legal limit is 50mg.