The former private chef of NFL star Stefon Diggs claims they had more than a professional relationship prior to her accusing him of assault.
Mila Adams, who accused Diggs, 32, of strangling her over a financial dispute last year, described things as “complicated” between the pair when she took the stand at his trial on Monday, May 4.
“It started out as friends,” Adams said. “Became sexual. We would meet up, hang out. We decided I would come work for him in February of 2025.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diggs’ attorney about Adams’ claims about her relationship with the football star.
Adams said she and Diggs first met in December 2022 “through an Instagram message.” She began working as his live-in private chef in July 2025, roughly four months after Diggs signed a deal to join the New England Patriots.
“I’m skilled with recovery, so I knew what it would take to help him get healthy and stay healthy,” Adams explained.
Adams said she was responsible for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks every day, and was paid $2,000 per week.
While Adams was hired to cater to Diggs’ needs, she said she would also “cook for whoever was in the house.” Diggs and rapper Cardi B began dating in late 2024, welcoming their first baby together in November 2025.
Us exclusively reported earlier this year that the couple split “a few days” before Diggs and the Patriots lost to the Seattle Seahawks in February’s Super Bowl LX.
In November 2025, Adams said “an Instagram DM message was sent to his child’s mother’s friend and this message was stating that I was telling his personal business of women that he was sleeping with us that worked with us, that worked with me.”
In addition to the child he shares with Cardi B, Diggs is the father of an unconfirmed number of children with other women. In November 2025, a paternity test proved Diggs shares a baby girl with model Aileen Lopera, who was born in April 2025.
After the DM was sent, Adams said she was “confronted by Mr. Diggs,” who eventually uninvited her from a planned group trip to Miami.
In December 2025, Adams alleged that Diggs came into her bedroom after the pair had been engaged in a “text exchange.” In her lawsuit, Adams said she and Diggs were discussing alleged unpaid wages.
“He came in intent to hurt me,” Adams claimed on the stand. “He was leaning against the dresser. He asked me to get up to come here. I got up off the bed and I came across to him. I stood in front of him, I stood on the side of him as he was leaning back. And he was like, ‘What was all that s*** you was talking?’”
Before Adams could answer, she said Diggs allegedly “smacked” her with “an open hand.”
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When asked to detail what happened next, Adams became visibly emotional and requested to “have a second.”
“He took his arm and he came around my neck and put his elbow around my neck,” Adams claimed. “He began to choke me, [put] pressure on my neck.”
Adams accused Diggs of then “falling on top of me on the bed.”
Diggs was charged with felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault and battery in December 2025. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
