Tiger Woods said he let his family down with transgressions he regrets "with all of my heart," and that he will deal with his personal life behind closed doors.
Time to pay?
 Columnist Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times is citing a source who says the following: That Tiger's wife Elin will be getting a hefty seven-figure payoff straight into her bank account; that she is demanding a total rewrite of their prenuptial agreement; and that the couple has entered into "intense" counseling. |
His statement Wednesday follows a cover story in Us Weekly magazine that reports a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a 31-month affair with the world's No. 1 golfer.
"I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves," Woods said on his Web site. "I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."
The cocktail waitress, Jaimee Grubbs, told the magazine she met Woods at a Las Vegas nightclub the week after the 2007 Masters — two months before Woods' wife, Elin, gave birth to their first child. Grubbs claims to have proof in 300 text messages.
About three hours before Woods' statement, Us Weekly published what it said was a voicemail — provided by Grubbs — that Woods left her phone on Nov. 24, three days before his middle-of-the-night car crash outside his home in Florida.
Another woman rumored to have been in an affair with Woods, Rachel Uchitel, scheduled a press conference Thursday.
Attorney Gloria Allred said in a statement released late Wednesday that she will make a statement about Uchitel's relationship with Woods. Allred says Uchitel will be present at the news conference but will not speak.
Last week, the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing Uchitel, a New York nightclub hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters.
Uchitel has previously denied having an affair with Woods.
