Tiger: ‘I let my family down’
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Tiger Woods comes really, really close to making TMZ the most trusted name in news. From the golf god’s website:
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. 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.
Uh-oh! … In the statement, Tiger continues to stand by the really quite unbelievable story that his wife Elin didn’t open up a can of whup-ass on him with that golf club, but rather, heroically freed him from his SUV, Michael Jackson-panther style … more on why he’s probably being so steadfast after the jump.
Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means. For the last week, my family and I have been hounded to expose intimate details of our personal lives. The stories in particular that physical violence played any role in the car accident were utterly false and malicious. Elin has always done more to support our family and shown more grace than anyone could possibly expect.
But no matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don’t share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.
Whatever regrets I have about letting my family down have been shared with and felt by us alone. I have given this a lot of reflection and thought and I believe that there is a point at which I must stick to that principle even though it’s difficult.
I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology.
I wonder what could possibly make Tiger issue this kind of semi-mea culpa … oh, probably something like … TMZ releasing supposed voicemails between him and his alleged girlfriend? … no … not that alleged girlfriend … this one …
In the call, you hear someone who sounds just like Tiger telling Jaimee to remove her name from her own voicemail, because Tiger’s wife Elin “went throught my phone and may be calling you.”
As we previously reported, Jaimee bragged about her relationship with Tiger to co-workers and even played them this voicemail at work.
Listen to the alleged voicemail here.
Apparently, there were also naughty text messages between Grubbs and Tiger:
“Send me something very naughty,” Woods reportedly wrote in a text message that Grubbs turned over to Us Weekly. “Go to the bathroom and take [a picture].”
“I will wear you out,” Woods reportedly wrote to Grubbs in another.
Grubbs, who says she was 21 when she first hooked up with Woods in April 2007, insists their relationship was more than just sex.
“He told me just last month, ‘Quietly and secretly we will always be together,’” Grubbs said.
Oh, and Miss Jaimee, who so far is best known as the girlfriend of a wannabe reality TV star called “loud moth tool,” (seriously…) says she’s got pictures, too. (I wonder how much cash she got from US Weekly for this stuff …?) Apparently, the loud mouth tool guy was jealous and angry because Tiger kept calling Jaime on the set. As one of his pal’s said, “not cool.” It’s all getting very complicated, what with Us Magazine claiming Woods had other affairs as well, including with a marketing professional at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, ” with a blond and a brunette at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in upstate New York and regularly hits on girls at an Orlando bar…” How does this guy find the time to play golf??? Also, the original alleged mistress, Rachel Uchitel, is still denying the affair talk, and blaming it all on loud-mouthed hookers. You just can’t make this stuff up.
And apparently, Jaime is doing a lot of talking:
Grubbs also apologized to Woods’ wife.
“I loved how we got along,” she told Us. “But I knew in the back of my mind there could never be just us. There would always be the wife, or somebody else.”
BTW, the third woman, and only brunette, is named Kalika Moquin.
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