Actress Uma Thurman’s ex ripped into her from the witness stand Tuesday, saying the “Kill Bill” star refused to return a $1.5 million engagement ring, blew through “six to seven” nannies last year and treated her pregnancy like a business deal.
“She wanted to have a contract two weeks after she was pregnant. She wanted to have a contract — the kid, visitation, everything,” Arpad “Arki” Busson testified in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“She was never very specific about what she wanted, but she just wanted a contract with terms, for me not to be able to have Luna on weekends, further out, as little as possible,” Busson said about their now 4-year-old daughter.
“I didn’t see a point of having a contract at that time,” he said.
Thurman, 46, and the 53-year-old French businessman dated for seven years through 2014. They were engaged but never married.
He said that Thurman still hasn’t returned the pricey engagement ring.
“What’s happened to the ring?” his lawyer, Peter Bronstein, asked.
“It’s my understand— I don’t know, but it’s my understanding that Uma still has the ring,” Busson said.
“Have you asked for it back?” Bronstein inquired.
“Yes,” Busson answered.
Thurman, wearing a navy blue suit and silk scarf, looked uncomfortable throughout the proceeding, alternatively scribbling notes to her lawyer and putting her head in her hand.
Earlier in the day, she narrowly ducked a grilling about her drug and alcohol use.
“Ms. Thurman, is it your usual practice to consume alcoholic beverages in the evening?” asked Bronstein.
The drinking has no “effect on my ability to function,” Thurman answered. The judge cut off further probing on the matter.
During the opening day of trial last week Busson had accused the “Kill Bill” star of washing down a dangerous mixture of prescription pills with booze to treat an unspecified mental illness.
Thurman’s attorney Eleanor Alter said she only suffered from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a mild learning disability.
Busson is seeking shared custody of Luna, as well as the ability to travel with her to his homes in the Bahamas and London. Thurman wants to give him less time and restrict the visits mostly to New York.
He testified that Thurman employed so many nannies in 2016 that he couldn’t remember all their names.
“Zoe, Emily, Erin,” he said, starting to count the caretakers on his hand before giving up.
“There’s been quite a lot of different nannies,” he said.
The trial is expected to run through next week.