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HBO’s “Tiger” special will air Sunday and will feature an interview with Rachel Uchitel, the mistress who eventually prompted Elin Nordegren, Tiger’s then-wife, to chase him out of their house on Thanksgiving night 2009. Nordegren had finally figured out that her husband had been cheating on her with Uchitel.
“I have stayed quiet about this story, but at this point, I have nothing left to lose,” Uchitel says to HBO. “My name hasn’t lost the stigma at all.”
Uchitel’s name became world-famous soon after Nordegren got her hands on Tiger’s phone on Thanksgiving and found he had texted his mistress, “You are the only one I’ve ever loved.”
Reportedly out of it after taking an Ambien, Tiger had no idea that his wife was about to use his phone and text Uchitel, pretending to be her husband. “I miss you,” Nordegren texted. “When are we seeing each other again?”
Uchitel responded with shock that Tiger was still up, and Nordegren lost it and revealed her true identity. “I knew it was you,” she texted back to Uchitel. “I know everything.”
The golf world was changed by early that Black Friday.
The “Tiger” story can’t be told without Uchitel, now 45. Her relationship with Woods developed as he was in the middle of a record-breaking 281-week stretch as the world’s No. 1 ranked golfer.
Tiger met Uchitel at The Griffin, a New York City nightclub where she was a VIP hostess.
“He said something like, ‘When can I see you again?’ It was intimidating.
“This was Tiger Woods. I know he was married. I knew he had responsibilities. But he said, ‘I want you to fly to Orlando. Then, I will come see you there.’
“That was the first night I had sex with him, and I remember thinking, ‘How am I ever going to be with a mere mortal again?’ Because so many people put him on such a pedestal and here he was in my bed, and he was my Tiger.”
It turned out, she wasn’t Tiger’s exclusive side piece. She was one of many. Tiger was in a tailspin complete with wild orgies of up to 10 women, according to a madam who claims to have handled business for him. There were porn star mistresses like Joslyn James and Holly Sampson, who were rumored to be part of Tiger’s rotation.
But it was Uchitel whom Tiger asked to attend the Australian Masters in 2009. The National Enquirer was waiting, put the puzzle pieces together, and the rest is history. Uchitel is left telling HBO about her time as the most famous main mistress in the history of sports mistresses.
“He told me a lot about his childhood, his dad. And he was sick of trying to hide who he was, but he was so scared of the real Tiger not living up to the Tiger that everybody else thinks he is.
“One day, I did ask him why he didn’t check in at home with Elin [Nordegren]. He said, ‘She doesn’t ask questions like you. She’s not like you.’
“It occurred to me he wanted someone to check in with. I asked him a million questions, and he wanted to give every single detail he hadn’t been able to say in years or ever.”
Looking back at that period of her life, Uchitel says she takes responsibility for her side of the story.
“I regret that he was married, and I regret the mistakes that I made. But people came at me like they wanted to blame me for the fact a married man cheated on his wife,” Uchitel reflected.
“Like I was the only one responsible for his actions.”
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Man Eldrick is such a sleaze.
I love that there is a physics for dummies book in Tiger’s SUV. Also, Rachel needs to return her lips and nose jobs. She probably looked better without them.
– …found he had texted his mistress, “You are the only one I’ve ever loved.”
I’m sure he said that to all of his mistresses.
“That was the first night I had sex with him, and I remember thinking, ‘How am I ever going to be with a mere mortal again?’ Because so many people put him on such a pedestal and here he was in my bed, and he was my Tiger.”
I know women may not get this completely because a lot of this education has been taken away or they don’t want to accept it anymore…but having sex with a guy doesn’t mean he’s committed to you…it just means you give it away pretty cheaply. A mistress is never a wife.
Eldrick is a philandering POS just like his old man was
Sex rules the world
Who cares? Just like HBO to air some garbage that’s old news for Eldrick so she can try and be relevant again. She should just STFU and go away.
Tiger is very much like Elvis or Michael Jackson in that they never really handled fame and eventually became too big to say ‘no’ to.
Tiger still makes golf interesting. But it has to be difficult to live in a bubble always and maybe even more so as he chases records still.
you can see some of the golfers that idolize T on the course look at him with awe even now. hope we get to see him grow old like Jack. hope he hangs on to his Magic a bit longer.
Skink skank skunk