Chelsea striker Sam Kerr has denied that calling a police officer “white” was used as an insult as she was cross-examined during her trial in London on a charge of racially aggravated harassment.

U.S. international Kristie Mewis told a court on Thursday that her fiancee Sam Kerr was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling” when she called a police officer “stupid and white”. Kerr, one of women’s football’s most decorated players,

Sam Kerr’s partner and United States international Kristie Mewis told a London court on Thursday the Matildas star, who’s on trial for racial harassment, was “speaking her truth in how she was feeling”.