Updated Wednesday: Revised to note that Warner admits she was intoxicated.

A fired Dallas County assistant district attorney said she was "uncomfortable with the route" an Uber driver was taking her on before he called the police because she was insulting him and refused to leave his vehicle.

Jody Warner, 32, wiped tears from her eyes while she told her side of the story Tuesday morning in front of the Frank Crowley Courts Building. She apologized for the language she used but said she was on edge after the driver took her a different direction than her home.

District Attorney Faith Johnson fired Warner on Monday afternoon after the Uber driver released an audio recording of the prosecutor drunkenly berating him while he gave her a ride home late Friday.

District attorney candidate Elizabeth Frizell and defense attorneys Peter Schulte and George Milner called Johnson's decision to fire Warner "hasty" and questioned how the decision was made.

"What we're saying in this case is if people are going to be fired from working for the state of Texas in this office, you've got to let us know, what are the ground rules?" Schulte said.

Frizell and the defense attorneys, who are not representing Warner, stood with the former prosecutor while she told her version of events.

"I'm not trying to make any accusations against that driver," said Warner, who admits she was drunk during the Uber ride. "I don't know his heart."

Shaun Platt said he felt intimidated when police showed up and pulled his passenger aside. (Twitter)

Johnson said she spent the weekend reviewing the incident before deciding to fire Warner.

She released the affidavits of both Warner and the Uber driver, 26-year-old Shaun Platt.

Warner said she was uncomfortable with the route Platt was taking when he drove her home. Platt claimed that Warner told him to change directions from where the GPS directed him, but Warner contradicted that claim.

She said because of her work with sex assault victims, "I'm always a little bit more on edge."

Warner said she doesn't know what Platt's intentions were and apologized for her words.

"I would do anything to react differently," she said. "I'm not trying to make myself a victim."

Warner worked as a prosecutor for six years, most recently in the crimes against children unit. Before that, she was a prosecutor in Frizell's court. Frizell resigned as a judge this year to run for district attorney.

Frizell said her decision to stand by Warner was not political but rather to offer support to someone she described as an "excellent prosecutor."

"When you have a prosecutor who has tried sex assault cases for almost a decade, you know the signs," Frizell said. "Her concern was heightened."

Schulte said that Johnson rushed to fire Warner but waited before firing Leah Lucius, who was placed on administrative leave after she was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge.

He also said that another assistant district attorney still has her job even though an appellate court reversed a capital murder conviction because the prosecutor did not turn over two eyewitness statements to the defense.

The district attorney's office has said that the prosecutor, identified in court records as Stara Hendricson, did not violate a pre-trial order to hand over evidence to the defense counsel.

"The Court of Criminal Appeals slammed that prosecutor, and she's still here working, prosecuting people," Schulte said.

"I could be unethical, cause perhaps an innocent person to be sent to prison for life," he said, "but I will lose my job when I have a bad night with an Uber driver who comes onto me, and I want to get out of there. That's the message that this DA is sending to her 250 lawyers."

Frizell echoed Schulte's concern about the decision to fire Warner, especially when another attorney who showed a "conscious disregard for the law and evidence" still has her job.

"It's concerning to me that a decision was made so quickly," Frizell said. "I'm asking the district attorney to take a second look at this."

Warner repeatedly apologized Tuesday morning for the language she used during the Uber ride and "for embarrassing the office that I love very much."

She also did not criticize Johnson, saying, "I have a lot of respect for her."

"I just wanted the opportunity to give my side," Warner said.

{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Scribd","provider_url":"https://www.scribd.com/","cache_age":604800,"title":"Shaun Platt's Statement","author_name":null,"author_url":"https://www.scribd.com/user/239922052/ttsiaperas","thumbnail_url":"https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/364454501/111x142/5e78939d69/1510761118","thumbnail_width":164,"thumbnail_height":212,"html":"

","raw":"{\"type\":\"rich\",\"version\":\"1.0\",\"provider_name\":\"Scribd\",\"provider_url\":\"https://www.scribd.com/\",\"cache_age\":604800,\"title\":\"Shaun Platt's Statement\",\"author_name\":null,\"author_url\":\"https://www.scribd.com/user/239922052/ttsiaperas\",\"thumbnail_url\":\"https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/364454501/111x142/5e78939d69/1510761118\",\"thumbnail_width\":164,\"thumbnail_height\":212,\"html\":\"\\u003Ciframe class=\\\"scribd_iframe_embed\\\" src=\\\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/364454501/content\\\" data-aspect-ratio=\\\"0.7694278394534586\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\" id=\\\"364454501\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" height=\\\"500\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\"\\u003E\\u003C/iframe\\u003E\\u003Cscript type=\\\"text/javascript\\\"\\u003E\

(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\\\"script\\\"); scribd.type = \\\"text/javascript\\\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \\\"https://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js\\\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\\\"script\\\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()\

\\u003C/script\\u003E\"}","providerType":"scribd","providerLink":"http://www.scribd.com/services/oembed","embedType":"rich"}

{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Scribd","provider_url":"https://www.scribd.com/","cache_age":604800,"title":"Jody Warner's Statement","author_name":null,"author_url":"https://www.scribd.com/user/239922052/ttsiaperas","thumbnail_url":"https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/364454327/111x142/c543977931/1510761087","thumbnail_width":164,"thumbnail_height":212,"html":"

","raw":"{\"type\":\"rich\",\"version\":\"1.0\",\"provider_name\":\"Scribd\",\"provider_url\":\"https://www.scribd.com/\",\"cache_age\":604800,\"title\":\"Jody Warner's Statement\",\"author_name\":null,\"author_url\":\"https://www.scribd.com/user/239922052/ttsiaperas\",\"thumbnail_url\":\"https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/364454327/111x142/c543977931/1510761087\",\"thumbnail_width\":164,\"thumbnail_height\":212,\"html\":\"\\u003Ciframe class=\\\"scribd_iframe_embed\\\" src=\\\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/364454327/content\\\" data-aspect-ratio=\\\"0.7707442258340462\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\" id=\\\"364454327\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" height=\\\"500\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\"\\u003E\\u003C/iframe\\u003E\\u003Cscript type=\\\"text/javascript\\\"\\u003E\

(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\\\"script\\\"); scribd.type = \\\"text/javascript\\\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \\\"https://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js\\\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\\\"script\\\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()\

\\u003C/script\\u003E\"}","providerType":"scribd","providerLink":"http://www.scribd.com/services/oembed","embedType":"rich"}