The testimony about Lana Clarkson's so-called depressive state at the time of her death keeps rolling in.

An old friend of the actress testified Monday that, about four or five days before Clarkson was shot in the hallway of Phil Spector's Alhambra mansion on Feb. 3, 2003, Clarkson called her in tears and told her that she didn't want to live anymore.

"I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to live in this town, I want to end it," Punkin Irene Elizabeth Laughlin described Clarkson as saying.

Laughlin, a club promoter who goes by the nickname "Punkin Pie," echoed several other defense witnesses' testimony in that she stated that the 40-year-old Clarkson was depressed about the state of her career and finances in the months leading up to her death.

Spector is accused of killing the Barbarian Queen star after a night of drinking in Los Angeles. The defense is arguing that Clarkson shot herself.

"Clarkson was crying uncontrollably" during that conversation, Laughlin said. "She said, 'Pie, I can't take any more…I'm done, done, done."

Laughlin said that she tried to cheer her friend up the best she could, but that she still felt guilty afterward that she couldn't do more to help.

Two weeks before that phone chat, Laughlin said, Clarkson, who in better days often was the life of the party, broke down in tears at a gathering after Michael Bay failed to recognize her. She had once worked with the Transformers director on a Mercedes commercial.

"She said, 'I'm really sick of these people in this town," Laughlin said. "I hate this town and I don't want to live here anymore."

Laughlin also became the second witness to say that Clarkson was fond of mixing alcohol and prescription meds. The defense has contended that Clarkson's judgment was clouded the night she died by booze and Vicodin.

Under cross-examination by Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson, meanwhile, Laughlin admitted that she never told investigators about her tearful conversation with Clarkson, or indicated to them that her friend had been depressed.

"I sort of muted the answers the best I could," Laughlin said. "I left some things out."

When asked whether she ever told anyone about her concerns, Laughlin said, no, because she didn't think that Clarkson was planning on committing suicide.

"It was very frightening," Laughlin explained. "But I calmed her down. I didn't think anything was imminent."

Laughlin denied that a potential book or music deal had anything to do with her not divulging Clarkson's alleged state of mind to investigators, but that she had been advised not to mention it until she had been advised by legal counsel.

"I have no vested interest in sides or anything," the promoter said. "It's not about that. It's about me and my conscience and my heart."

Jackson also accused Laughlin of changing her story because she hadn't been welcomed by Clarkson's family throughout these proceedings.

"Are you frickin' kidding me?" Laughlin countered. "That is so not true. I'm in shock at your question."

When questioned about happier times, Laughlin said that she could always count on Clarkson, whom she had met at a Halloween party in 1993. Even after Clarkson broke both wrists in 2001, she was calling to cheer Laughlin up, the witness testified.

She called the day Clarkson died the "second-worst day of my entire life."

On the stand Thursday, Laughlin said that Clarkson was "my mother, my sister, the best date you ever had because she was always on time. She was the funniest person I ever knew."

An exchange between Laughlin and defense attorney Roger Rosen Monday, during which Rosen tried to jog Laughlin's memory about indicating to authorities that Clarkson could have committed suicide, was stricken from the record and L.A. County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered the jury to disregard that line of questioning.

Laughlin said that she couldn’t recall saying anything about suicide to investigators.