SYDNEY (AFP) — Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman on Monday said she had been "really, really scared" when a photographer chased her car across Sydney almost three years ago.
Giving evidence at a defamation hearing in Sydney, the Hollywood star spoke of crouching down in the back seat of her car as she was driven to her parents' home in January 2005.
Kidman told the New South Wales Supreme Court that her driver, John Manning, had sounded alarmed when he told her they were being followed by local papparazzo Jamie Fawcett and another car.
"He said that they were driving crazy and that they had run red lights and jumped the median strip," Kidman said.
"I was frightened and I was worried about a car accident."
Kidman, the star of films such as "Moulin Rouge" and "The Hours", told the court she had been "really, really scared," Australian Associated Press reported.
The 40-year-old, who was wearing a cream blouse, a cardigan and grey skirt, was swamped by the media as she arrived in the Sydney court for an appearance which took less than an hour.
The Hollywood star was giving evidence in a defamation hearing after a jury last year found that a Sun-Herald newspaper article had defamed Fawcett.
The court is now considering defences brought forward by the newspaper's publisher John Fairfax.
Kidman, who won an Oscar in 2003 for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in "The Hours", was forced to break her schedule filming Baz Luhrmann's new drama "Australia" to attend court.
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