In November, the ex-girlfriend of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch accused him of assault. And, in court proceedings this week, Busch made an unexpected accusation.
According to The Delaware News Journal, Busch told a Dover, Delaware, family court that his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, is a trained assassin.
The outlet says Busch claimed that she's "had experience killing drug lords via long-range sniper rifles and close combat tactics – including the use of knives and poison."
The 36-year-old former NASCAR champion also reportedly said that Driscoll went out on secret mercenary missions across Central and South America and Africa. (Video via WMDT)
Busch reportedly gave one detailed account of Driscoll leaving the house in camouflage garb and returning wearing an evening gown covered in blood stains underneath a trench coat. (Video via WBOC)
The News Journal says said she denied those accusations on Tuesday, and the outlet also said Busch mentioned it in an attempt to disprove the assault allegations that she made against him in November.
Driscoll claimed that he slammed her head multiple times against a wall inside his motor home late September while at a racing event. Shortly afterward, she asked for a protective order against him. Busch, meanwhile, has repeatedly denied that he physically abused her.
"I'm not a regular mom. I don't drive a minivan, and I have two jobs," Patricia Driscoll said.
It's worth noting that Driscoll is the head of two companies that, as Deadspin points out, "makes Busch's assassin claims seem at least vaguely plausible." (Video via Zero Point Zero Productions, Inc. / 'Pocket Commando')
One is called Armed Forces Foundation. It's a nonprofit that provides support for wounded veterans. The other is Frontline Defense Systems, where her short website bio says she "spent the majority of her career in the narcotics and intelligence world."
The commissioner presiding over the case said he'll weigh in on Driscoll's protective order request after both sides submit closing arguments in writing. He's given the attorneys two weeks to do so.
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