LOS ANGELES — Jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial screened a videotaped police interview Tuesday in which the music producer's Brazilian chauffeur worried to detectives that his boss might harm him for talking to authorities about the shooting of an actress.

"You think I'm in danger because this guy is, is too rich?" Adriano DeSouza asked during the interview, which was conducted about five hours after Lana Clarkson's Feb. 3, 2003, death.

A sheriff's department homicide detective, Paul Fournier, told him he doubted he was in any real danger, but warned him, "This is going to be a high-profile case, no doubt about it."

"Oh my God," DeSouza replied.

Prosecutors played the hour-and-a-half-long interview at the close of DeSouza's four days of testimony to rebut defense assertions that the driver did not speak English well enough to understand Spector's alleged one-sentence confession after the shooting.

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Throughout the interview, the driver quoted Spector as saying, "I think I killed somebody," a statement that has become a cornerstone of the prosecution's case.

The defense has focused on another part of the interview, an answer DeSouza gave when he was again asked about the statement.

"I think so. I think — I am not sure. It's my English," he said.

Jurors watched the taped interview at the end of DeSouza's four days of testimony.

Asked again to explain the comment, DeSouza testified that he felt the detective was missing what he was telling them.

"I told him that because I thought he was not understand what I said," he testified.

Spector, 67, showed no expression as he watched the grainy videotape along with jurors.

He faces 15 years to life in prison if he is convicted of murdering Clarkson.

Much of the tape repeated the account DeSouza gave on the witness stand. He told detectives he was sitting in the producer's Mercedes outside the back door of Spector's estate, The Pyrenees Castle, at 5 a.m. when he heard a "pow." Moments later, Spector exited the rear door with a gun and allegedly made the incriminating statement.

In the interview, DeSouza said that when he asked Spector what had happened, he responded with "a stupid face."

A detective asked if he meant an expression meaning "I don't know," and the driver agreed.

Also Tuesday, a 911 supervisor testified that a call from DeSouza's cellphone was the only request for help at Spector's estate the night of the shooting. Prosecutors have said Spector spent 40 minutes alone in the house before police arrived and could have called for assistance from any of the many phones in the 33-room mansion.

The trial is being streamed live on Court TV Extra.