A woman accused of hiring a hitman to murder of her millionaire husband has admitted to a jury at Cardiff Crown Court that she was a "brazen hussy".
Jane Jones, 37, from Blackrock, Monmouthshire, admitted being unfaithful because she was "frustrated" by her workaholic chemist husband.
Mrs Jones denies soliciting a man to murder pharmacist Francis Jones, 60.
But she admitted having affairs to "get back" at her workaholic by having sex. The trial continues.
Giving evidence on Monday, Mrs Jones, who has a disabled child, told the jury she had never asked anyone to kill her husband.
She said a conversation she had with a former lover during which she is alleged to have asked him to run her husband off the road in return for Ј20,000 had just been "having a moan".
"I may have said I wished him dead or that someone would do it but it was a stupid off-the-cuff, throwaway remark," she said.
"I'm not a murdering, cold person. I don't wish him dead and I never did."
Twice-married Mrs Jones said she was initially happily married but her husband's commitment to his business meant they would rarely go out and she looked "for a shoulder to cry on".
She took nine lovers, including her husband's son - who later died in a road accident - on their wedding day.
She told the court how a relationship with ex-SAS soldier Bob Routledge - whom she met through the stables where she kept her horses - became the "highlight" of her week.
"I was frustrated. I was ground down by life and sex was my release," she said, adding that she was "a lousy wife".
"I should never have done it, but at the time it was what I needed to do."
She later moved with her son out of the to a cottage her husband bought for her. She later returned to the marital home and but said she had sex with other men in an act of revenge.
"I tried to rekindle what we had at the beginning but I felt resentful and bitter," she said.
"His business came first, rather than the family. By having sex with other men I felt I was getting back at him.
"If he didn't want to be with me, I thought I would find someone who did want to spend time with me, whether it was just for sex or turned into something else."
She also described how she had sex in the woods with a builder called Dan, who had wolf whistled at her with his friends as she passed in her soft-top Saab.
She said: "I was a brazen hussy but it seemed like a good idea at the time."
'Domestic bliss'
The trial previously heard from another former lover Lenny Loveridge refused Mrs Jones' suggestion he kill the chemist and his "finances would be sorted out".
The prosecution allege Mrs Jones' marriage was "entirely financially motivated" and she could have inherited Ј2m .
Mr Jones, a chemist of the village of Llanhilleth, south Wales, told the court he thought their marriage was "domestic bliss".
A former friend Deborah Benjamin, told the jury how Mrs Jones told her of numerous attempts to persuade a string of lovers to murder her husband.
Mrs Jones is charged that between January 2003 and August 2005, she solicited lover Lenny Loveridge to murder Mr Jones.
(BBC)
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