Tiger Comes Clean
by Tommy Long
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Tiger Woods just spilled the beans on his “transgressions”. I guess it was hard to deny it once all the text and voicemails were leaked by one of his whores. I hope they were worth losing ½ of his billion dollars that he has earned as a golfer and product endorser to his soon to be ex wife Elin.
The press release on Tiger's website came hours after US Weekly magazine put Woods on its cover, released Wednesday, alleging he has a two-plus-year affair with a Los Angeles cocktail waitress.
It also comes comes a week after the National Enquirer reported that Woods had an he was involved in a car accident.
The US Weekly report claims that Jaimee Grubbs (inset) has more than 300 text messages from Woods, and the US Weekly Web site posted a voice mail Grubbs says is Woods calling her last week and asking to change the ID on her phone so that his wife wouldn't recognize it.
“I will wear you out…when was the last time you got (bleeped)?” one message read.
Another one from Tiger read, “Send me something very naughty…Go to the bathroom and take (a picture).”
Grubbs told Us Weekly that she and Tiger met in April 2007 and had more than 20 "encounters," to put it politely, over the next 31 months.
Wednesday morning, the magazine published what it said was a voice mail provided by Grubbs that she said was left by Woods on Nov. 24, three days before his early morning car crash. In the voicemail, a man asks Grubbs to take her name off her phone.
"Hey, it's Tiger," the man says in the voicemail. "I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you. So if you can, please take your name off that. Just have it as a number on the voicemail. You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye."
It cannot be verified that the voice on the message is that of Tiger Woods or not.
Early this morning Tiger released this statement on his 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.
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."
Now the only question remains is how many other women are there?
