A NASCAR champion has told a court that 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, 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."
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 to support the military that has partnered with NASCAR.
In a telephone interview with the Associated Press late on Tuesday, she rejected Busch's claims.
"I find it interesting that some of the outlandish claims come straight from a fictional movie script I've been working on for eight years," Ms Driscoll said.
Michael Doncheff, who was a personal assistant to Busch and Ms Driscoll, testified that she had told him she was a US government assassin.
"I take down foreign governments," he quoted her as saying. "I own Washington."
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