CHELSEA star Sam Kerr today told a court "I feared for life" in a drunken taxi row before she branded a cop "f***ing stupid and white". The 31-year-old was out with her partner - fellow footballer Kristie Mewis - when one was sick in the cab and the other smashed a window, it was said. After allegedly refusing to pay a clean-up fee, the taxi driver drove the pair to Twickenham Police Station. Once there, Kerr, who is currently sidelined from Chelsea with an ACL injury, became "abusive and insulting" towards Pc Stephen Lovell, jurors heard.

Giving evidence today, the Aussie international said she had put her head out of the window when she began to feel sick before the driver "rolled it up" and began to "drive dangerously". Kerr told Kingston Crown Court: "He accelerated and began to swerve in and out of lanes… We were getting thrown around. "I couldn't hear what he was saying. He was speeding up and stopping. "Neither of us had our belts on so we stood up and tried to talk to him… it felt like he was going wherever he thought… I was terrified.".

Kerr said the dangerous driving continued for 15 to 20 minutes - causing her to feel "terrified for my life". She said there was "no reasoning" with the driver even after partner Kristie begged him to stop. Kerr added: "Everything was going through my mind about being in a car with a stranger I deemed to be dangerous. "Kristie was very distressed. She was crying and scared. I've never seen her like that before and it made me more scared.

"I started to realise how serious the situation was. It put me in protective mode… he had the power over us. "We were not in control… I deemed him to be dangerous because of the driving but also because he could have taken us anywhere. He couldn't be tracked so no one knew where we were.". Kerr said the pair tried to open the doors and windows multiple times but they remained locked. Eventually, Kristie "kicked out (the window) with her boot" which resulted in Kerr feeling "relieved".

Footage played to jurors previously showed Kerr in the police station saying: "Honestly, you guys are f***ing stupid and white". She also reference Sarah Everard's murder - telling the officer: "Look at what happened last year when a girl accepted a police officer’s help in Clapham and got raped and killed.". At one point in the bodycam video, Kerr branded the taxi driver a "f***ing liar" and calls him a "stupid c***".

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC said the police officer was left "shocked, upset and humiliated" by the comments. He added: "He took offence to the comments that Ms Kerr made about his race because you may think that his being a white man really had nothing to do with anything.". Matildas captain Kerr has pleaded not guilty to racially aggravated harassment. The court heard she described the moment on January 30, 2023, as "heated" and said she was "just very angry at how I felt".

Mr Jones added: "Ms Kerr said that both herself and Ms Mewis were crying at the time.". Kerr's lawyer Grace Forbes told jurors that no one disputes the words that were used but that they do not "make you guilty of a criminal offence". She continued: "The words were a comment, however poorly expressed, about positions of power, about privilege, and how those things might colour perception.". Kerr has scored 99 goals in 128 matches since joining Chelsea in 2019.

During her time there, the team has won four Women's Super League titles, three FA Cups, two Women's League Cups and the Women's Community Shield. But the striker was crocked in January last year at the club's warm weather training camp in Morocco. Kerr is her country's all-time record goalscorer with 64 goals in 125 games for the Matildas. She has also been nominated for the Ballon d'Or Féminin - the top prize in women's football - every year since its inception in 2018.