Details are beginning to emerge about the situation involving Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs and him being charged with assault and strangulation.
According to TMZ Sports, Diggs is charged with an assault and strangulation stemming from a December 2nd incident involving his personal chef. The personal chef, who’s a female, claimed the receiver stormed into her bedroom and assaulted her following a heated discussion bout money.
The TMZ report continued:
According to the narrative, the female employee first went to police on Dec. 16 and stated she was working as a private chef on Dec. 2 when Diggs entered her unlocked bedroom to discuss an ongoing text exchange between the two over money she believed she was owed.
The woman claims during the conversation, Diggs became angry and smacked her across the face. She said she attempted to push him away, but he then “tried to choke her using the crook of his elbow around her neck.”
She claims Diggs was behind her with his arm wrapped around her … and she felt like she had trouble breathing and “could have blacked out” — when she tried to pry herself away, she claims Diggs tightened his grip.
The woman claims Diggs then threw her onto her bed and said something along the lines of “Thought so.”
The chef reportedly stopped working for Diggs after the incident. Diggs allegedly told her to resolve the matter with his assistant, and the assistant offered to pay her what she was owed if she signed a non-disclosure agreement. She declined.
CBS News Boston reporter Aaron Parseghian obtained court docs that show a heated text exchange between Diggs and the personal chef:
Here’s the full police report:
Diggs, through his lawyer, has denied the allegations, blaming the situation on “an employee-employer financial dispute that was not resolved to the employee’s satisfaction.”
For now, Diggs has not been placed on the Commissioner Exempt List but that could change in the coming days.
