Uchitel replied immediately, expressing surprise that Woods was up. How could she be sure to catch her husband in this lie? on Friday, and Nordegren, described by friends as an exceptionally controlled person, thought for a moment. She clicked on it and found a text from her husband: “You are the only one I’ve ever loved.” On Thanksgiving night, after Woods, an insomniac, took an Ambien and fell asleep, Nordegren took his phone and scrolled for Uchitel’s number. Uchitel’s pet name for Woods was “Bear.” She’d shown friends sexts Woods had sent and claimed Woods was getting a divorce. Uchitel, who appeared on the front page of The Post after her fiancé was killed on 9/11, had had an affair with the actor David Boreanaz while his wife was pregnant. But she read the Enquirer’s story and was shaken by the detail: Her husband had met Uchitel in June, four months after the birth of their son, at a club in New York City. Over the next two days, Nordegren said nothing. just have it as a number on the voice mail.
So if you can, please take your name off that. “Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and, uh, may be calling you. Nordegren didn’t tell Woods, and when he retrieved his phone, he, too, called Grubbs. “You know who this is,” Nordegren said, “because you are f- -king my husband.” She found another name, Jaimee Grubbs, and called her. That afternoon, Woods left his cellphone unattended, and Nordegren scrolled through his call history. Nordegren and Uchitel spoke for 30 minutes. 24, one day before the Enquirer hit stands, Woods put his wife on the phone with Uchitel, who insisted there was no truth to the imminent story. Sources close to Nordegren later told The Daily Beast that on Nov. She’d been photographed checking into the same hotel as Woods during the Australian Masters and was quoted as telling a friend: “It’s Tiger Woods! I don’t care about his wife! We’re in love!” Wielding a golf club, Elin Nordegren chased after an Ambien-addled Tiger Woods outside their home in 2009. The banner headline read “Tiger Woods Cheating Scandal.” Inside was a spread detailing Woods’ months-long affair with a New York City nightclub hostess named Rachel Uchitel. The day before, at the Albertsons supermarket around the corner, the new edition of the National Enquirer was freshly slotted in the checkout racks. 26, 2009, Woods and Nordegren, then 29, were hosting his mother for Thanksgiving at their $2.4 million mansion in Windermere, Fla., near Orlando. They had two children - daughter Sam, then 2, and newborn son Charlie - and a wholesome image that netted him $110 million in endorsements. He had a beautiful wife, a former model in Sweden who had been working as nanny to golf star Jesper Parnevik when she met Woods at the 2001 British Open. Woods was considered the greatest golfer of all time and a uniquely American success story, a multi-ethnic superstar dominating a historically white sport. 1, Forbes named him the first athlete to earn $1 billion. In April 2009, he was photographed in the Oval Office meeting President Obama. Since 1999, not a year had gone by without him winning at least one golf major championship, and he won 14 majors from 1997 to 2008. Less than two weeks prior, Woods had won his first event in Australia, the Masters, by two strokes. In the years since, details have trickled out about what really happened that night.
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