accuser Mila Adams takes stand in assault case
Diggs has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Adams stated she met Stefon Diggs in 2022 on Instagram and had a “complicated” relationship that included courting one another till 2025 when he employed her to be a cook dinner in his Dedham dwelling, incomes $2,000 per week in wages.
“I would say complicated,” Adams testified when requested about her relationship with Diggs. “It started out as friends, it became sexual and we would meet, hang out. We decided that I will come work for him.”
She moved into her Dedham dwelling final summer season, she stated.
An extra complication befell final November, Adams testified, when she was accused by Diggs of sending a DM message despatched to “his child’s mother’s friend and this message was stating that I was telling his personal business of the women he was sleeping with that he worked with us.”
She stated Diggs confronted her concerning the DM message.
“We got into an argument after Mr. Diggs confronted me. He sent me a message, per his instruction, and called me a name — excuse my language — a bitch,” Adams stated. “And she just went on and on and on.”
Adams testified that she had a level in psychology, however didn’t have formal coaching as a chef. She stated throughout her 13 years as a non-public chef she labored for different skilled athletes and actors incomes between $3,500 per week and $10,000 per week.
Adams stated she was accountable for getting ready all of Diggs’ meals, and for anybody who was at her dwelling.
Prior to Adams taking the stand, jurors heard opening statements from each side.
Assistant Norfolk District Attorney Drew Virtue advised oaths that the chef, Mila Adams, would testify that she was in her bed room at Diggs’s home on Dec. 2, 2025, when “he entered her bedroom, walked up to her and slapped her.”
Virtue stated Adams would additionally inform swearers “how he put her in a headlock, the difficulty she had breathing, that he threw her on the bed, and that he left.”
That by no means occurred, countered Diggs’s lawyer, Andrew Kettlewell, when he addressed jurors.
“There was no assault, there was no strangulation, there was no incident on Dec. 2 or any other day,” Kettlewell stated, including that nobody among the many six folks in Diggs’s dwelling that day heard or noticed something amiss.
“The Commonwealth has no physical evidence,” Kettlewell stated. “There are no medical records. There are no photos or videos showing any injuries.”
He advised swearers that Diggs and Adams had been feuding over cash in addition to a separate situation involving one among his enterprise companions who’s accused her of bad-mouthing her on-line in an nameless weblog publish.
Kettlewell stated Adams was “furious” over Diggs leaving her off of a deliberate journey to Miami stemming from the spat, and that she declined to inform police she had been fired on Dec. 13, three days earlier than she reported the alleged assault to police.
And, Kettlewell stated, hours after the alleged assault, Adams touched down in New York to spend per week with mates, and a variety of movies have been taken on that journey. He advised her demeanor on the movies is not “consistent” with having simply been brutally assaulted.
In addition, Kettlewell stated Adams issued a financial demand to Diggs on Dec. 29 that has since grown.
During the ultimate pretrial listening to Friday, District Court Judge Jeanmarie Carroll stated selecting the six-person jury would begin Monday and could last into Tuesday.
Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s workplace, which is prosecuting the case, stated it can name simply two witnesses — the chef and the Dedham police officer who spoke along with her in December, information present.
The chef advised officers in Dedham on Dec. 16 that Diggs assaulted her on Dec. 2, 2025, whereas she was working in her dwelling, police stated. She stated they argued over cost for companies and that Diggs allegedly struck and choked her, police stated.
The Patriots released Diggs in March. He stays unsigned.
In courtroom papers, legal professionals for Diggs wrote that they’ve supplied prosecutors exculpatory proof, together with textual content messages between the chef and Diggs, movies of the chef on the evening she alleged Diggs assaulted her and from a number of days after “showing the absence of any physical injuries,” and statements from individuals who interacted along with her between Dec. 2 and Dec. 16.
At Friday’s listening to, Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Drew Virtue stated the chef indicated throughout a Zoom assembly along with her lawyer final week that she had witnessed Diggs in a previous altercation with an unnamed individual on an unspecified date, which factored into her determination to delay coming ahead out of concern for her private security.
Carroll stated from the bench that the girl shall be swept away from discussing that incident on the stand “unless there’s some further detail” that involves gentle.
At Diggs’s first court hearing at the end of December, his earlier legal professionals stated he was working to resolve the case although a monetary settlement, although he maintained his innocence.
In a courtroom submitting final week, Diggs’s legal professionals wrote that the chef and his civil lawyer “made a high-dollar demand” to settle the case earlier than the prison trial started.
In a current submitting, Diggs’s legal professionals stated their investigation into the matter had “uncovered multiple false statements made by” his accuser.
On the day Diggs was charged in December, his legal professionals stated, a enterprise affiliate of the chef “made a demand for payment of money” on her behalf by “email to Mr. Diggs’s representatives.”
That demand, Diggs’s legal professionals stated, “will tend to show the [chef’s] bias and motivation.”
Material from earlier Globe protection was used in this report.
John R. Element could be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. observe him @JREbosglobe. Travis Andersen could be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Nick Stoico could be reached at nick.stoico@globe.com.
