A furious wife severed her husband's fingers with a knife after he allegedly returned home drunk and tried to have sex with her.

Kaew Pasotiyoung, 56, said she was sleeping when she heard husband, Supapol, 52, stumble into the home in Chonburi, eastern Thailand, last Friday (May 21).

He allegedly climbed into bed and tried to have s e x with his wife, who pushed him away and told him to go to sleep.

However, Kaew said that when he continued his advanced she grabbed an eight inch long kitchen knife she had been keeping at her bedside for safety.

The spurned husband's two fingers on his left hand were then severed in the struggled.

He was pictured sitting on the pavement outside their single-story wooden home while Kaew defiantly showed off the knife. The angry wife said she had used the weapon to defend herself.

Speaking in the video, she says: ''He tried to have s e x with me. I told him to sleep, many times, but he didn’t listen. I had a knife beside me so I slashed him, with this knife. I didn’t count how many times I slashed him. But he started it.''

Kaew the yells at her husband: ''You think I’m your little hooker?''

She continues: ''Give me the phone. Where is your phone? Call your son, he’s not going to give you any money.''

Paramedics put a bandage on Supapol's injured fingers and he was taken to the Queen Sirikit Hospital for further treatment. He had several stitches in the severed fingers.

Police did not attend the disturbance and neither the husband or wife made a complaint so officers have not been involved.