The personal chef who filed assault charges against Stefon Diggs dodged a question on Tuesday about whether she demanded $5.5 million from the Patriots star just weeks before the trial.

Jamila Adams, who took the stand, was asked several times by Diggs’ lawyer about whether her attorneys sought the large payout from Diggs three weeks before the high-profile Massachusetts trial kicked off Monday.

“Three weeks ago, your lawyer demanded $5.5 million from Stefon Diggs, correct?” Diggs’ defense attorney Sara Silva asked Adams.

“That is client-lawyer privilege. I cannot speak on that,” Adams said.

Silva incredulously questioned whether the accusers’ overtures to Diggs were covered under attorney-client privilege before asking a second time about the payout demand.

Prior to the jury being brought in, Judge Jeanmarie Carroll warned Adams to stay on topic during cross-examination by Diggs’ lawyers.

“This is not an opportunity for you to interject your own narrative and evade responding to questions the court deems appropriate,” Carroll warned Adams at the start of the second day of trial Tuesday. “If you continue to do so your entire testimony may be stricken. Am I clear?”

“Yes,” Adams said.

Diggs’s team called a handful of witnesses Tuesday who were in the house the same day Adams claimed he assaulted her and who claimed they didn’t hear or see anything concerning the alleged incident. No one in the house heard a fight or saw any injuries on Adams, according to testimony.

On Monday, Adams cried as she claimed Diggs allegedly slapped and choked her on Dec. 2, 2025.

She also claims she and Diggs had a sexual relationship before she started working for him.

Adams worked for Diggs from July through December 2025 as a live-in personal chef at Diggs’ Dedham, Mass., mansion making $2,000 a week.

During closing arguments Tuesday afternoon, Diggs’ lawyer, Andrew Kettlewell, claimed Adams “made this accusation as a means to leverage, humiliate and punish Stefon Diggs.”

Prosecutor Drew Virtue admitted Adams wasn’t “the perfect witness” but said that didn’t mean “you should throw away everything she said.”

The reason Adams didn’t divulge what allegedly happened to her to anyone in Diggs’ circle was because they were all getting paid by him and were friends with him.

And by Adams’ own admission, she had a complicated relationship with Diggs. 

“He was a sometimes lover, boss, landlord, athlete, celebrity, financially powerful, surrounded by people who were all on his payroll and liked him,” Virtue said, adding that under those conditions, “her behavior does make sense.”

The jury began deliberating around 3:10 p.m.