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Free agent NFL wide receiver Tyreek Hill took the witness stand in his divorce and battery civil case in Miami on Thursday, and it was as explosive as his speed and play-making ability on the field.
During approximately two hours of testimony, Hill …
…Claimed his 18-month marriage to Lakeeta Vaccaro Hill was punctuated by arguments about her refusal to sign a post-nuptial agreement, her stealing between $60,000-$100,000 a month from a family account, her insistence his family leave their sprawling Broward County estate, and occasionally him flirting with other women.
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Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill speaks to reporters at Baptist Health Training Complex in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Monday, July 23, 2024. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service)
Hill, 32, denied he ever punched Vaccaro’s stomach while she was pregnant, twisted her breasts, pulled out her hair, shoved a lit blunt into her face, or left her on the side of a road – which Vaccaro claimed on the witness stand earlier this week.
But Hill did admit to throwing Vaccaro up against a wall of their Sunny Isle, Florida condo, creating a hole in the structure. He did admit to threatening her by saying he knew people who could hurt her.
And he did apologize for cursing out both Vaccaro and her mother – a rant that is on tape.
That’s not all.
Hill accused Vaccaro of indirectly being responsible for causing the fire that burned down their home in Broward County. And he also accused her of causing him to play worse once they got married because of the constant fighting.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill (10) scores a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills during the second half of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, New York, on Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
“I felt like If you look at my career before and my career after I got married it was, like, trending down,” he testified. “And it was, like, bad. I was like, man, am I really putting this product on the field? Do I really look that bad? It was hard.”
Hill’s testimony wrapped up at 5:41 p.m. but he is scheduled back on the witness stand on Friday because Thursday’s session was all direct testimony. Vaccaro’s attorney will have a chance for redirect on Friday.
So, a lot to unpack here.
Hill and Vaccaro were married in November 2021, but there was no prenuptial or post-nuptial agreement. And that became one of the pillars of their constant fighting during the 18-month marriage.
“Obviously, the postnup is definitely one of the constant arguments and then finances,” Hill said. “I think that’s a very important topic that has to be explored through this whole entire thing.
“Then money getting stolen, and the mother of my kids. I would literally have conversations with the mothers of my [other] kids and she would be, ‘You’re doing, X, Y, Z with them. You’re being intimate with them.
“Those were the primary arguments.”
Keeta Vaccaro attends The Model Experience’s Fashion Week Festival at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 30, 2023. (Getty Images)
Hill admitted he and Vaccaro discussed the postnuptial seemingly countless times. And often those ended in arguments. Hill accused Vaccaro of marrying him because of her interest in his money.
It began with Vaccaro taking $10,000 one time before their marriage. And then, he testified, the sums got larger after the marriage.
“I was like, babe, why you stealing money?” Hill testified. “All you have to do is say, ‘help me out.’ She stole money then. She stole money during the marriage while getting what she was already getting, which she was getting $15K.
“Then she was taking around $60K a month and I would see that and it’d be, ‘You’re giving this person this and that person that.'”
Hill also said Vaccaro’s monthly take at one point was $100,000 in one month.
He also testified that Vaccaro didn’t like his family around their baby girl. But when the couple’s home burned, and they moved to the swank Porsche Design Tower in Miami, she moved her mom in.
“It was one of those where I said have your mom come down for a little bit to help you out at the beginning of the pregnancy,” Hill said. “I didn’t know she was going to come down and stay for two years.”
Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill looks toward the field on the sideline before an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sept. 29, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, file)
The couple split but agreed to get counseling. During one of those sessions, Hill said, both agreed many of their conversations “were getting out of hand.”
That included allegations by Vaccaro that Hill was physically abusive on at least eight different times. Hill denied all those happened except one time he came home to pack clothes and leave.
“As I’m getting my clothes, I feel somebody brush up behind me,” Hill said. “And that person brushing up behind me is my wife, and I’m like, hold on, hold on … That continued for like five minutes.
“I told her don’t you ever touch me again in your life. I pushed her against the wall. And I tried to force her to get off me. I created a hole in the wall, trying to force her to get off me that night.”
Hill testified that despite pushing his wife into a wall, he and her “got physically intimate that night.” But later he had remorse and decided he definitely wanted a divorce.
“I didn’t want to be that in front of my daughter,” he said. “I felt embarrassed, you know what I’m saying?”
Hill also testified about a fateful car ride home in May 2024 in which Vaccaro claims he shoved her into a car door, threw her shoe out of the car and drank.
Tyreek Hill of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates after defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Divisional Playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 23, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. The Chiefs defeated the Bills 42-36. (Getty Images)
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Hill admitted to drinking socially. And he also admitted he warned his wife about what might happen to her if he wanted to hurt her.
“I did, I did make statements about she wasn’t safe,” Hill said. “I did make statements about me being able to get people to hurt her. Like now, looking back, I wish I could have handled that situation better.
“I wish I could have talked to my wife better. I wish I could take it all back.”
Hill also testified that his grandmother and sister “wanted to do some things to [Vaccaro] but knew she was, in Hill’s words, “the love of my life.”
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