Gothamist
A non-profit newsroom, powered by WNYC.
Gothamist
Listen Live
News
Wife Of Virile Jet Antonio Cromartie Reportedly Faked Suicide
By
Ben Yakas
Published May 20, 2012
Modified May 20, 2012
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
Never miss a story
Email address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .
By
Ben Yakas
Published May 20, 2012
Modified May 20, 2012
Share
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
We rely on your support to make local news available to all
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2026. Donate today
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
According to the Post, the seven-months pregnant wife of Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie sent her husband a series of suicidal texts messages in May 2011 that read: “God forgive me, I don’t want to die. What have I done?” and “I cut my wrists. I took those pills.” It turned out all to be a ruse to get her husband back home, fearing he was cheating on her with another woman. After all, the 28-year-old Cromartie has quite the reputation: he has 10 kids by eight different women in six states, AND the couple is expecting a set of twins soon.
Terricka Cason Cromartie was then-pregnant with the couple's second child, Jagger; Cromartie believed the suicidal texts were real enough to frantically call NJ police at 2:43 a.m. “There’s a problem at my house. She’s bleeding. She cut her wrists,” he told the dispatcher. She confessed to police she faked the whole thing because she thought Cromartie was cheating: “She stated that she had no intention of going through with the act,” says a police report on the May 6, 2011 incident. “She said she was exercising her First Amendment right to free speech and could say whatever she wanted.”
She also said she sent texts to Cromartie's alleged paramour, and even told "her that both she [Terricka] and her husband have [word redacted] even though they do not,” the report says. Terricka was forced to take a psychiatric evaluation as she became “belligerent, uncooperative, irrational and argumentative.”
All of this is to say that maybe, just maybe, this is a terrible consequence of having 10 kids by eight different women in six states (not counting the two other babies on their way) at the tender age of 28. Below, you can consult the Post's handy graph to keep track of everything:
Tagged
antonio cromartie
football
jets
suicide
Terricka Cromartie
virile
Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
Read more
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
MORE news
Gatorade recall affects drinks sold in New York and New Jersey
More than 122,000 cases are being recalled over undeclared food dyes.
By
Giulia Heyward
Published Oct 5, 2026 at 4:36 p.m. ET
Gov. Hochul declares upstate NY measles outbreak a ‘disaster emergency’
The declaration is driven by rising case counts in rural areas and in neighboring Pennsylvania.
By
Caroline Lewis
News
Gov. Hochul declares upstate NY measles outbreak a ‘disaster emergency’
The declaration is driven by rising case counts in rural areas and in neighboring Pennsylvania.
By
Caroline Lewis
NYPD detective forced to retire after false statements in Brooklyn investigation
By
Charles Lane
Mamdani faces pressure to forge ahead with plan to fix polluting South Bronx market
By
Elizabeth Kim
Dominican man who shot border patrol officer in NYC sentenced to 15 years in prison
By
Samantha Max
Never miss a story
Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily.
Sign upEmail address
By submitting your information, you're agreeing to receive communications from New York Public Radio in accordance with our Terms .