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In a tense courtroom scene, Stefon Diggs’ former personal chef, Jamila Adams, tearfully recounted an alleged assault by the ex-Patriots star at his luxurious mansion. The assault trial for the wide receiver commenced on Monday.
Adams, who served as Diggs’ live-in chef at his Dedham, Massachusetts residence from July to December 2025, disclosed that their relationship had a personal dimension before her employment, earning $2,000 weekly.
“It’s complicated,” Adams described their relationship.
She elaborated, “We started as friends, it turned sexual, and we would meet up and spend time together. Eventually, we agreed I would begin working for him in February 2025,” she testified.
Adams recounted that on December 2, 2025 — the day of the alleged incident — she sent a text to Diggs from her bedroom, expressing her frustration over not being included in his trip to Miami for the Art Basel event.
She testified that she and Diggs’ girlfriend Cardi B had been coordinating the outfits they were going to wear to the art show.
At one point in the text exchange, Diggs called her “b—hes,” she claimed.
A “very angry” Diggs eventually opened her bedroom door and burst inside, she recounted.
“What was all that s–t you was talking?” she said he asked her before allegedly unleashing his attack.
“He smacked me with an open hand,” Adams testified before beginning to cry and taking a moment to compose herself.
Adams tried to block him with a defensive move she saw on social media but Diggs menacingly responded: “That sh-t is not going to work,” she claimed.
“He took his arm and he came around my neck with his elbow … and he began to choke me,” she said through tears.
He then pulled her hair and finally let her go, before saying: “Yeah, I thought so,” she claimed, according to a report by NBC Boston.
The assault was so frightening that she wet her pants, she testified.
Adams said her relationship with Diggs started to become strained in November when he confronted her, accusing her of spreading the rumor that he was sleeping with another staffer, Lindsay, according to a report by TMZ.
This fight was the reason Diggs wouldn’t allow her to go to Art Basel, she told the jury.
Days after, Adams tried to make nice with Diggs, texting him: “Really sorry, Stef.”
She claimed this was all to make sure she could collect her last paycheck.
“I needed to be nice to Stefon in order to get my pay to leave,” she said.
During opening arguments, Diggs’ lawyer, Andrew Kettlewell claimed Adams cooked up her claims, including by crafting text messages to help support her allegations when she told the police. And the lawyer said there was no physical evidence to support the charges.
Diggs — who played for the Patriots for one season in 2025 and is now a free agent — has pleaded not guilty.