Lauryn Eagle's drug-driving conviction overturned

Boxer and swimsuit model Lauryn Eagle's conviction for drug-driving has been overturned in a Sydney court today.

Her lawyer Adam Houda confirmed the Appellate Court decision, meaning Eagle's conviction for driving under the influence of methamphetamine will be struck from her record.

In January Eagle was fined $600 and banned from driving for six months over the incident.

This morning Judge Helen Syme quashed the orders previously made at sentence, noting it was a "very unusual" case involving the use of a legally prescribed medication.

Eagle did not speak to reporters as she arrived at court this morning.

She pleaded guilty to the charge in January, after Magistrate Hugh Donnelly refused to overturn the charge and have it dealt under the Mental Health Act.

The overturned conviction comes almost 12 months after she returned a positive result for methamphetamine during a random drug test at Peakhurst in Sydney's south on July 12, 2017.

In sentencing, Mr Donnelly said the methamphetamine present in Eagle's body was contained in ADHD medication she had purchased in the United States.

But he also said that “by driving with the drug in her system, she put other road users at risk”.

The former boyfriend of NRL bad boy Todd Carney appeared on the TODAY Show last year to say there was "not one iota" of truth that she had used drugs before getting behind the wheel of a car.

Eagle said she believed medication for narcolepsy called modafinil and medication for ADHD prescribed by her doctor were behind the positive result.

She said the truth "would have been revealed in six weeks' time" but instead "the damage gets done and (journalists) don't care".

"It's heartbreaking for me and my family," she said.

"The way that journalists can twist and smear when they're supposed to be objective.

"You're playing with someone's soul. It chips away at you little by little."

- With AAP