IT was 3am and her boyfriend was fast asleep when Michelle Smart climbed on top of him and tried to initiate sex.

Smart, 30, told Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office deputies that 33-year-old Ryan Rucker “rejected her and pushed her off him”.

An argument followed and Rucker told deputies that Smart said “she would shoot him because she has the gun”, The Smoking Gun reported.

Deputies were called to the home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and found Smart sitting in a truck outside. She allegedly claimed that Rucker has assaulted her and that she did not know where he was.

However, when deputies knocked on the door, Rucker answered and told deputies that after the argument he had remained inside out of fear that his girlfriend would shoot him. She was found to have a Ruger handgun in her possession.

Smart was charged with misdemeanour domestic abuse charges.