Stefon Diggs’ former personal chef broke down into tears recounting the moment the ex-Patriots star allegedly choked her at his multimillion dollar mansion as the wide receiver’s assault trial got underway Monday.
Jamila Adams, who worked as a live-in cook for the NFL wide receiver at a Dedham, Mass. digs from July through December 2025, also claimed the two had slept together before she was hired, making $2,000 a week.
“It’s complicated,” she said of their relationship.
“It started out as friends, became sexual and we would meet up, hang out and we decided I would come work for him in February 2025,” she testified.
Adams said on Dec. 2, 2025 — the day of the alleged assault — she texted Diggs from her bedroom in his house about how she was upset he wasn’t taking her with him and others to Miami for the Art Basel expo.
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.
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