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People Magazine Gets The Elin Nordegren Exclusive: “I’ve Been Through Hell”

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With her divorce finalized, Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods‘ ex-wife, is speaking out for the first (and what she says may be the last) time.

People magazine landed the exclusive, but is saving most of the juicy details for readers of the print edition. However all the network morning shows got a preview, and filed detailed reports this morning.

Nordegren didn’t address the cheating directly, although she said “I’ve been through hell.” She also says she “never suspected” any of it, and was “blindsided” and “embarrassed.” She did talk about what happened that Thanksgiving night:

There was never any violence inside or outside our home. The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous. Tiger left the house that night, and after a while when he didn’t return, I got worried and decided to look for him. That’s when I found him in the car. I did everything I could to get him out of the locked car. To think anything else is absolutely wrong.

Interestingly, while Nordegren says she barely watched TV in the months following the incident, she did say “she found the parodies of herself on Saturday Night Live and South Park ‘pretty hysterical,’ even if ‘totally untrue.’”

As for Woods himself, she says she’s not yet ready to forgive him. In fact, the only positive comment she offered related to golf. “I wish him all the best in the future, as a person and as an athlete,” she said. “I know he is going to go down as the best golfer that ever lived, and rightfully so. I feel privileged to have witnessed a part of his golfing career.”

People hits newstands (and then will subsequently leave newstands quickly) on Friday. The magazine says this will be “her first – and last – interview, as she intends to remain a private person.” Here’s ABC’s segment this morning:

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  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    And your response was to put the man through the same as if society had not done it enough.

  • Pablo

    Ah, yes. Tiger’s problems are all Elin’s fault. She’s gotta be a racist, huh TRL?

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Pablo said:
    Ah, yes. Tiger’s problems are all Elin’s fault. She’s gotta be a racist, huh TRL?

    No, but family should be there for a person even through their problems. Otherwise they’re not real family. I’m not justifying him, he’s wrong, but even through all of that he never once blamed the woman or treated her as trash as she has him. This just shows me that she didn’t really love the man. It’s not about race, you “race-baiter”

  • Pablo

    She has treated him like trash how, exactly? I’m sure Tiger was holding his wife and children in the highest regard while he was out screwing anything with a hole.

    Hey, maybe you wanna shit on Elizabeth Edwards next. She really let poor John have it, didn’t she?

  • George C

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    No, but family should be there for a person even through their problems. Otherwise they’re not real family

    Most womens sense of ” family” goes out the window when you BANG the neighbors daughter. The women that I know anyway.

  • paulmdoro

    I don’t think anyone can know the complex inner workings of another couple’s marriage. It is presumptuous to suggest that “she didn’t really love the man.” I cringe when I see these people running to the tabloids to pour their heart out, but she was at home taking care of his children while he was screwing anything that moved.

  • Azarkhan

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    he never once blamed the woman or treated her as trash as she has him.

    If there is an award for “Complete Leftist Swine”, you should receive it. When Tiger Woods cheated on her with various whores, he “treated her as trash”. If you would take a moment to remove your lips from whatever black ass they are stuck on, you might be able to see that. Then again…you’re just plain stupid so…as you were.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Grant-Devereaux/1317155160 Grant Devereaux

    Cry me a river, baby. Take your 100 million dollars and cry me a river!

  • Chudi

    She is a golf digger. I have friends in the golfing community, who have told stories about her. How she threw a bottle at him a party, just because he was talking to other people. These were stories that were whispered before, but were not really said in public. She is a insanely jealous, and knew all that was going on.

    She is a freaking high school grad with $100M of money she never made. She should shut the hell up, and slink back into oblivion.

  • Azarkhan

    Chudi said:
    She should shut the hell up, and slink back into oblivion.

    Scum like you should do the same.

  • paulmdoro

    Chudi said:
    She is a golf digger. I have friends in the golfing community, who have told stories about her. How she threw a bottle at him a party, just because he was talking to other people. These were stories that were whispered before, but were not really said in public. She is a insanely jealous, and knew all that was going on.

    She is a freaking high school grad with $100M of money she never made. She should shut the hell up, and slink back into oblivion.

    So anecdotal evidence completely excuses his atrocious and reprehensible behavior while rendering her an insanely jealous woman who should shut up? Interesting.

  • Socrates69

    “So anecdotal evidence completely excuses his atrocious and reprehensible behavior while rendering her an insanely jealous woman who should shut up? Interesting.”

    Agreed. Not sure why reasonable Lib doesn’t seem to agree that this man betrayed his family in the most basic sense of the word. And “golf digger” or not, he made a commitment to her, that he essentially destroyed. I don’t wish him ill, but she certainly did nothing wrong.

  • Chudi

    paulmdoro said:
    So anecdotal evidence completely excuses his atrocious and reprehensible behavior while rendering her an insanely jealous woman who should shut up? Interesting.

    They have been telling these stories for more than 3 yrs now. She is a gold digger, and an evil woman. Just my opinion of course. I have no sympathy for people like her who scheme to get money of guys.

  • libra blue

    In my opinion, Woods is a whoremonger who chases after white women and his wife is a gold digger who chases after rich guys, so what else is new in the world of celebrities? They both got what they paid for. Now Woods can buy himself another white blonde bimbo and his wife can buy herself a cabana boy in her color of choice.

    I thought she had to keep her mouth shut to get that money.

  • paulmdoro

    So who forced Tiger to marry her and break his marriage vows? I forget.

    And do you have sympathy for men who choose to marry someone and then proceed to continuously break the vows they took?

  • Pablo

    libra blue said:
    In my opinion, Woods is a whoremonger who chases after white women and his wife is a gold digger who chases after rich guys, so what else is new in the world of celebrities?

    Really? So anyone who marries Tiger is a gold digger? Does Elin have some history of this sort of thing, or is it just that she married a rich guy?

  • Chudi

    Pablo said:
    Really? So anyone who marries Tiger is a gold digger? Does Elin have some history of this sort of thing, or is it just that she married a rich guy?

    She is a gold digger.

  • paulmdoro

    Chudi said:
    She is a gold digger.

    Wait, you know her personally? You never mentioned that. And your inability to answer the questions speaks volumes.

  • am_underground

    I’m just glad it all over so the media can now stand down and take on some real news like: Gaga is bigger that Brittney on Tweeter, LiLo out of Rehab, Housewives (name a city), Jersey Shore or anything else that has become front page news and/or the lead stories on most of the news channels today.

    Jesus, this country has going to hell and it just keeps getting worse. There is no one producing news today that would ever gotten a job in the good old days of Cronkite or Huntley/Brinkley. Got to wonder why most of the so called expert say the the age of adulthood has gotten older, just look at what they think is news.

  • libra blue

    @Pablo, “Really? So anyone who marries Tiger is a gold digger? Does Elin have some history of this sort of thing, or is it just that she married a rich guy?”

    No, it was “true love”. Come on, do you really believe someone who looks like Elin would even give a second look at someone as homely and geeky as Woods if he wasn’t loaded?

  • paulmdoro

    libra blue said:

    No, it was “true love”. Come on, do you really believe someone who looks like Elin would even give a second look at someone as homely and geeky as Woods if he wasn’t loaded?

    Then Tiger should not have chosen to marry her.

  • libra blue

    @paulmdoro, “Then Tiger should not have chosen to marry her”.

    You are right, but I don’t think Woods is that bright. Either way, she was nothing more than a “status symbol” for him.

  • paulmdoro

    libra blue said:
    @paulmdoro, “Then Tiger should not have chosen to marry her”.

    Either way, she was nothing more than a “status symbol” for him.

    Maybe, but I think it’s hard for people who don’t know them or the inner workings of their relationship to know that. No two marriages are alike in my experience.

  • libra blue

    @paulmdoro, “No two marriages are alike in my experience”.

    You may have a point in the “real world”, but in the celebrity kingdom they are usually the same. 99% of the time there is always a quid pro quo even if one of the parties chooses to live in denial.

  • paulmdoro

    libra blue said:
    @paulmdoro, “No two marriages are alike in my experience”.

    You may have a point in the “real world”, but in the celebrity kingdom they are usually the same. 99% of the time there is always a quid pro quo even if one of the parties chooses to live in denial.

    Yeah that’s true.

  • JimBob

    The more $ millions the “Celebs” accrue, the better looking and/or younger the “Celeb” becomes AND
    the more beautiful and blonder the wives keep getting. You know Elin fell in love with TIGER because he
    is just so damn pretty!!
    Elin is a very beautiful, VERY RICH young
    woman. But after seeing and looking at the Bio’s of all of the Skank’s Tiger was running with, I would
    recommend Elin get a good Maintenance Overhaul and have it Certified!

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Tiger is an asshole on a more personal level I know a person who was a valet in Florida and Tiger gave him a two dollar tip. In my opinion if you are a billionaire giving a two dollar tip you have an asshole characteristic. Also I did not like how he handled the lynching remark from his friend. Many of you act as if Elin is innocent well you are a bit on the foolish side. Any woman who marries a billionaire and shortly thereafter has kids for him does not make her a gold digger but it is a gold digger attribute. Add in her high school education and limited talent gives more likelihood she married him for the money. Women generally marry men based on status not looks or personality. Men generally marry based on looks a recipe for divorce. She received what she wanted a big paycheck. The true victims are the kids they were most likely a catalysts to help her achieve her millionaire dream.

  • Pablo

    libra blue said:
    No, it was “true love”. Come on, do you really believe someone who looks like Elin would even give a second look at someone as homely and geeky as Woods if he wasn’t loaded?

    Tiger is homely? I did not know that.

    Elin was Jesper Parnevik’s nanny when he introduced her to Tiger. I suspect Tiger was very interested in her because she’s extremely hawt. Duh. She did not hunt him down. And Parnevik wishes he hadn’t introduced them.

    There are plenty of golddigging whores out there. I have yet to see any evidence that Elin is one of them. And it seems that if she were, she would have cut a deal where they stay married. She didn’t.

  • libra blue

    @Pablo, “Tiger is homely?”

    Brad Pitt he ain’t, but that is only my opinion.

    “There are plenty of golddigging whores out there. I have yet to see any evidence that Elin is one of them. And it seems that if she were, she would have cut a deal where they stay married. She didn’t.”

    The fact that a woman that looks like Elin would even speak to a geeky looking guy like Woods is all the evidence you need. His indiscretions were a godsend for her, now she can go out and buy a hot hunk with Woods’ money. She will be having her cake and eating it too. Again, only my opinion.

  • Pablo

    libra blue said:
    The fact that a woman that looks like Elin would even speak to a geeky looking guy like Woods is all the evidence you need.

    You have got to be kidding. Everyone on the internet is all too aware of the phenomenon known as Hot Chicks With Douchebags. As for Tiger’s hawtness or lack thereof, I’ll defer to those more expert in such matters.

  • Pablo

    The blurb on that People piece frames the issue nicely in retrospect:

    The PGA superstar loves being on the golf course, and feeling the “rush of playing and competing.” But he’s also a devoted family man, talking to PEOPLE about his marriage to model Elin Nordegren, “I couldn’t be happier. I love the idea of growing together,” he said. “I want to have a relationship where we change for the better and continue to get closer.”

    …and then he went and played 18 holes. Then he played some golf.

  • Patrick Henry

    Pablo said:
    and then he went and played 18 holes. Then he played some golf.

    LOL!

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