NFL free agent wide receiver Tyreek Hill returned to the witness stand for a second day in his Miami-Dade County divorce battery trial on Friday, revising testimony he gave the previous day and acknowledging he verbally abused his wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, while continuing to deny he physically harmed her.
The case, playing out in a Miami-Dade court, resumes Monday. As of Friday, Vaccaro’s attorneys had not produced undisputed evidence of physical violence against their client, though they spent much of the day confronting Hill with contradictions between his Thursday testimony and prior statements.
A Changed Account of the Wall
On Thursday, Hill testified that he pushed Vaccaro against a wall at the couple’s Sunny Isles condominium, leaving a hole in it.
“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 said Thursday.
By Friday morning, his account had shifted. He told his attorney that a door, not Vaccaro’s body, had caused the damage.
“The door, the main door. I was trying to evade [Vaccaro], but I’m not trying to harm her or push her against the wall or, like, do anything crazy. As I was trying to evade, I put a hole in the wall with the door,” Hill testified Friday.
Hill’s attorneys also had him explicitly deny ever hurting Vaccaro’s breasts, an allegation she made earlier in the trial.
Admissions Under Cross-Examination
On cross-examination, Vaccaro’s attorneys got Hill to admit he had used insulting language toward his wife, both directly and to friends.
“The language, I’m gonna take that all on this end, I’m not proud of that. I am ashamed. I don’t even go back home because my marriage failed … The language was terrible. Was terrible. I wish I could have been better in every single moment, but I’m not perfect. The only thing I can do is learn from it and move forward and never talk to my co-parent like that again,” Hill said.
Vaccaro’s legal team also highlighted several apparent contradictions between Hill’s Thursday testimony and earlier statements he made during his deposition. They challenged his suggestion that Vaccaro may have been connected to a house fire at the couple’s Southwest Ranches home in Broward County, noting the fire was actually determined to have been caused by a child playing with a lighter.
Attorneys also pushed back on Hill’s claim that Vaccaro had been
