By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

She went from his girlfriend to adopted daughter, and on Wednesday Heather Laruso Hutchins took the stand to testify in the defense of her lover and legal parent, John Goodman’s, DUI manslaughter trial.

Hutchins, 42,  told the Palm Beach, Florida, courtroom how the multi-millionaire had called her soon after the February 2010 accident in which he crashed into student Scott Wilson, pushing his car into a canal.

Goodman, 48, subsequently adopted Hutchins as his daughter in a Miami-Dade Cou