(WHAS11) -- Karen Sypher’s ex-husband will be back on the stand Friday but everyone is talking about U of L coach Rick Pitino's cross examination that got emotional.
And questions are being raised about Sypher's abortion records after the prosecution pointed out inconsistencies.
A sparring match and an emotional moment made up U of L Coach Rick Pitino's second day in the federal extortion trial against Karen Sypher.
Sypher’s ex-husband Tim Sypher also testified Karen’s behavior was erratic once she started taking several prescription pills.
Rick Pitino smiled and nodded as he headed into court on Thursday.
He spent two and a half hours on the stand being grilled by Karen Sypher's attorney, James Earhart.
Earhart questioned Pitino about how much coaching he'd received before he took the stand and asked him why he never denied raping Sypher during the meeting between the two that Sypher secretly recorded.
Pitino said he never responded to the rape claims because it was a false accusation made by a blackmailer who left a voice mail on his cell phone.
He told Earhart: "I don't think you understand. You keep asking me the same thing over and over. I'm not arguing with you, I'm just giving you the truth and nothing but the truth." Earhart: "I bet you are."
And Earhart asked him about the sexual encounter between him and Sypher seven years ago at Porcini that sparked this entire thing.
Earhart asked: "You protested?" Pitino: "No, I did not." Earhart: "Then you engaged in sexual intercourse with Karen Sypher?" Pitino: "I did."
Three weeks after the encounter Sypher told Pitino she was pregnant.
And in 2009 during that secretly recorded meeting Sypher maintained she had an abortion to satisfy Pitino.
"I had an abortion of a baby that was way too late and I should not have and I did for you," Sypher said.
The prosecution tried to show inconsistencies in Sypher’s statements and showed jurors the questionnaires Sypher filled out at an abortion clinic in Cincinnati back in August of 2003.
The counselor comments say: "Patient indicated she is choosing abortion because she wants no more children."
"Patient feels spiritually at peace with her decision but is anxious to have the procedure ASAP."
The day of the abortion Sypher said she felt "confident" and "strong."
She said it was not true:
That she thinks God will punish her for having an abortion.
That someone else is forcing her or pushing her into an abortion.
She says she has asked for forgiveness from God.
Those documents also say Sypher was 5 weeks pregnant.
The prosecution hopes to dispute Sypher's claims that Pitino forced her to have an abortion.
But in that meeting with Pitino she secretly taped she tells him repeatedly how she feels about the abortion, six years later: "I lay my head down and pray to God that I don't go to hell.”.
Her ex-husband, Tim Sypher, testified that Pitino insisted he meet Sypher and admitted to getting a girl pregnant.
Sypher said he drove her to Cincinnati for an abortion and "I paid for it with the money coach gave me. I didn't have a credit card. I was in between a rock and a hard place. I didn't know what to do."
Toward the end of their marriage, several years later, he says Karen "always carried around a bunch of pills with her. She was falling in the shower, she was falling at home, she started slurring her words."
He also testified the demand note he says Sypher told him to give Pitino in West Virginia. He said: "I really don't want to give you this, I should rip it up, it was nuts."
Pitino testified the worst part of all of this was asking his son to take a job in Florida, his way of protecting him during this controversy.
He said: "The best two years of coaching I've had in 35 years was the last two years. When I had to suggest to move on to another job because of this, that was the worst."
On Friday Sypher's former attorney, Dana Kolter is expected to testify.
Kolter sent Pitino a letter last year which accused Pitino of raping Sypher and forcing her to have an abortion.
