Heidi Fleiss gave Tom Sizemore's movie a bad review. He gave her a black eye.

So went the tearful testimony of the former Hollywood Madam, taking the stand Tuesday in Sizemore's domestic abuse trial.

The Saving Private Ryan star is accused of hitting Fleiss, his former fiancée, harassing her with more than 100 phone calls, trashing her belongings and threatening her.

The actor, free on $100,000 bail, has pleaded innocent to the 16 misdemeanor counts that could put him behind bars for up to 13 years, if convicted.

Tuesday in Los Angeles, Fleiss told jurors she loved and trusted Sizemore before his angry outbursts left her battered and fearful of the movie tough guy. She sobbed throughout much of the testimony.

According to news reports, Fleiss described one particularly nasty episode, in November 2001, when she and Sizemore went to New York for the premiere of Black Hawk Down, another war movie in which Sizemore, the Private Ryan sergeant, pulled a tour of duty.

"We did the Howard Stern show and [Stern] asked me if I like the movie," Fleiss said, according to the Associated Press. "I said I didn't like it because it was too violent. I like things like Bambi."

According to Fleiss, that was the wrong answer. Later in their hotel room, "[Sizemore] hit me," she testified, per City News Service. "It was terrible."

So terrible, Fleiss said, that the couple did not attend the movie's Big Apple red-carpet screening.

In opening statements, Sizemore's lawyer sought to deflect Fleiss' damning words even before she uttered them.

"Tom Sizemore is innocent," defense attorney Michael Fitzgerald told the courtroom, per reports. "Heidi Fleiss is a liar."

Fleiss, 37, and Sizemore, 41, began stepping out as a couple in 2001. At one point, they moved in together and publicly talked marriage. But the union never took.

In May 2002, Fleiss testified, she confronted Sizemore about a tabloid story that had him cheating on her with the kind of women she herself used to employee--prostitutes.

"He hit me in the bedroom and dragged me across the room by my hair," Fleiss said. "He hit me with his hands...I had a black eye."

Later that same month, Fleiss said, per City News Service, Sizemore "hit me so hard that I fell backwards. I hit my head."

Photographs taken of Fleiss in May 2002 by Fleiss' sister after an alleged Sizemore attack were shown to jurors on Tuesday, the wire service said.

Fleiss and Sizemore's on- and off-again relationship ended for good last fall.

"There are no crimes here, just tragedies," Fitzgerald, the defense attorney, said in court. "[These] are two people who fell in love, tried to make their relationship work and it didn't."

On the stand, Fleiss said she resisted running to police with stories of Sizemore's abuse because of her past.

"I was on parole, the convicted criminal, and he was the all-American guy and could send me back to prison, which was the worst thing that could happen to me," Fleiss said.

Fleiss served more than two years behind bars for tax evasion and money laundering related to her once high-flying Hollywood call-girl service, which specifically served the likes of Charlie Sheen. She walked free in 1999, although it wasn't until this past April that she was truly free, released from the terms of her probation.

Fleiss, whose life story reportedly will get the big-screen treatment courtesy Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, eventually did talk to authorities about her allegations against Sizemore.

He was arrested in May, initially on a charge of threatening to rough her up and kill her family if she testified in another pending domestic-abuse case facing the actor.

That separate case involves an unidentified woman whom Sizemore allegedly punched in the face. He pleaded innocent to those charges, all misdemeanors, in March.

Sizemore's rap sheet dates back to 1997, when he was arrested on suspicion of felony spousal abuse following an argument with actress/wife Maeve Quinlan. She declined to press charges. In 1999, she filed for divorce.

In a statement issued in May, Sizemore discounted Fleiss as a "fixated and obsessed" "convicted felon" who was out to "get back" at the actor for ending their relationship.

Sizemore most recently played a cop on the failed CBS series Robbery Homicide Division. He was to begin work this month on a new movie, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things.

Fleiss is scheduled to return to the stand Wednesday.