Drugs and alcohol can ruin your life. An Australian couple seemed to be caricatures of the quintessential family. He was an Olympic athlete. She was a singer and model. They were young and beautiful and had two gorgeous twins. Then drugs and alcohol became involved.

Candice Alley, the singer and estranged wife of swimming star Grant Hackett, was caught shoplifting children's designer clothing from a posh boutique in Melbourne. This as reported in theage.com.

It is still unclear how their seemingly perfect marriage dissolved earlier this year, but the only public information involves drugs, alcohol and shoplifting.

Alley stole as many DKNY and One Red Fly dresses she could in two separate shoplifting incidents.

While she has not yet been arrested, video surveillance has her nailed dead to right and police are trying to find her.

Alley, an aspiring pop star and mother of the couple's twins, has remained quiet since her April split from Hackett.

The 32-year-old Hackett went on an alcohol-fuelled rampage after Derby Day last October, damaging the couple's luxury apartment and there are allegations that he physically abused his wife during the altercation.

In addition to his alcohol-fueled rampage, Hackett has admitted to a problem with prescription medication.

You see how easy it is to fall when drugs and alcohol get involved. I hope Alley takes a good stop theft and counseling for her issues and Hackett finds a good alcohol class so he can get himself sober.