The ex-mistress of former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn said in court Wednesday she now loathes him because she believes he’s a murderer.
“I hate him,” Alleigha Botner, 24, testified in court Wednesday, according to CNN. “When we were in our relationship, and I thought I was in love.”
Asked why her feelings have changed, she replied, “Because I believe that he murdered his wife.”
Flynn, 40, has been accused of fatally shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, in her Ohio home in February then staging the crime scene.
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Prosecutors have cited his affair with Botner as a motive for the killing.
She testified that she was a 21-year-old intern at Flynn church when they met and started their affair.
