After she accused Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov of beating her, his former girlfriend was threatened with mutilation, murder and rape on a Russian social media site, she testified Tuesday.

“Don’t come back to Russia, you will get murdered here, you will get acid poured on your face,” someone posted on the Internet site, Evgeniya Vavrinyuk testified during the civil trial in Denver District Court.

She also was told she would be raped for accusing Varlamov, who at the time was preparing to play for Team Russia in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, she said.

The threats kept her from returning to Russia, she said.

“If they are a hockey star, than they are still going to be a national hero, even if they beat someone up,” she said.

Vavrinyuk filed the lawsuit in October 2014 claiming Varlamov had beaten her for years before his arrest in October 2013 on suspicion of felony kidnapping and assault. Prosecutors declined to file the kidnapping charge and later dropped a misdemeanor assault charge against Varlamov.

Vavrinyuk said Varlamov kicked her, beat her and dragged her by the hair after a Halloween party on Oct. 28, 2013.

During the incident, she said, he told her, “If we were not in America, I could have killed you.”

The next day, she called a friend and told her what happened. The friend offered to go with her to the police and translate for her.

First they went to the law office of Robert Abrams, the friend’s husband, she said. She spent the night at their home, and they went to the police the next day, she said.

Under cross-examination by Varlamov’s lawyer, Saskia Jordan, she said she had told a police investigator that she wanted Varlamov prosecuted but didn’t want to sue him.

But Jordan showed the jury a copy of a contract to file a claim of civil assault and battery that she had signed with Abrams on Oct. 30.

On the same day, she texted Varlamov saying that her lawyer wanted the phone number of his lawyer.

“He wants to talk to him now,” she texted.

She didn’t go to Denver Health to have her injuries looked at until after she had spoken to police Oct. 30. When Jordan asked why she had not sought treatment, she said she did not have money or insurance. Police assured her the bills would be paid through the Crime Victim Compensation program.

During about six hours of testimony, Vavrinyuk cried, dabbed at her eyes and frequently sighed.

She said the trouble started during a Halloween party with the goalie’s teammates and their wives and girlfriends.

At one point, she realized he was angry and followed him to the men’s room, where they argued.

She said she went to sleep and Varlamov returned home at about 6 a.m.

He appeared drunk, she said, She pushed him at his face, and he kicked her in the chest, knocking her to the floor, she said. When she tried to get up, he kneeled on her chest to keep her down, she testified.

After she got up and tried to push him out of the room, he grabbed her by the hair and dragged her.

“I started kicking and screaming. I felt like my scalp was going to come off,” she testified.