Kate McCann was asked by her son about claims she was involved in the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, a court has heard.
Mrs McCann was delivering a statement in a Portuguese libel case relating to the allegations, which were made in a book by ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral.
The court heard Mrs McCann had told her son Sean that the Portuguese detective had said "a lot of silly things".
Madeleine was three when she went missing in Praia da Luz in May 2007.
At the time, Sean and his twin sister Amelie were aged two.
On Tuesday, Mrs McCann told Lisbon's Palace of Justice that Sean had raised the claims made by Mr Amaral after he heard them on the radio on a school bus.
"Sean asked me in October, 'Mr Amaral said you hid Madeleine'. I just said that he said a lot of silly things," she said.
Mr Amaral - who coordinated the original investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - alleged that she had died in the family's holiday apartment, and that Kate and her husband Gerry had simulated her abduction and hidden her body.
The McCanns are suing Mr Amaral, his publisher and a company that produced a documentary based on his book for one million pounds in damages.
Kate McCann told her son the claims were "silly" Son 'asked about Madeleine claim'
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