A social worker who spoke with Oscar Pistorius the day after he fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp said that the 27-year-old runner was “a heartbroken man” in the wake of the shooting.

"He cried 80 percent of the time; he talked to me about what they planned for the future, his future with her,” social worker Yvette van Schalkwyk testified at South Africa's Pretoria court Thursday, adding that she was compelled to take the stand after reports surfaced that double-amputee runner's courtroom outbursts were the result of acting lessons, as opposed to genuine emotion.

The social worker said that the paralympian’s legal team contacted her just two days prior in seeking her expertise on the stand.

The testimony from van Schalkwyk, naturally, came under fire from bulldog prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who claimed her findings were irrelevant to the case, as it’s a logical assumption Pistorius would have been shaken-up and traumatized in the wake of the shooting.

Nel said that the Olympian’s lack of apologetic sentiments regarding Steenkamp’s death further illustrate another character flaw, as "It's all about him."