A NASCAR champion has told a court his ex-girlfriend, who is seeking a protective order against him, is a trained assassin.
Kurt Busch, 36, known on the racing circuit as the Outlaw,
said Patricia Driscoll was sent on secret missions across Central and
South America and Africa.
She said his testimony was "ludicrous" and inspired by a fictional movie script she has been working on.
Ms Driscoll runs her own surveillance system company
Ms Driscoll, 37, alleges in a criminal complaint that Busch
slammed her head against the bedroom wall of his motorhome at Dover
International Speedway, Delaware, which he denies.
The driver, a winner of 25 races and the 2004 NASCAR
champion, said that one night when he and Ms Driscoll were at a hotel in
El Paso, Texas, she went out in camouflage and boots.
She returned wearing a trench coat, he told a Delaware family court.
Underneath, she was wearing an evening gown splattered with blood and other matter, he said.
He told the hearing: "Everyone on the outside can tell me I'm crazy, but I lived it on the inside."
The couple, who were together for four years, seen in happier times
During his testimony, he also asserted his ex-girlfriend had shown him pictures of bodies with gunshot wounds.
He said a female character in the film Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, was partly based on her.
Busch said he ended his four-year relationship with Ms Driscoll last autumn because he needed to focus on racing.
Maryland-based Ms Driscoll, who applied for the protective order last November, runs her own surveillance system company.
She also oversees the Armed Forces Foundation, a non-profit organisation that has partnered with NASCAR.
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