Tiger Woods Admits "Pretty Bad Things," Living a Lie in First Interviews Since Sex Scandal
In his first two interviews since his November car crash and sordid sex scandal, Tiger Woods spoke with ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman about his "transgressions," subsequent treatment and upcoming return to golf.
The most repeated sound bite: "I've done some pretty bad things in my life."
Ya think?! But to his credit, he at least took tough questions and was sober-sounding, apologetic and maybe even sincere, unlike his February apology speech.
"I was living a life of a lie, I really was. Stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be ugly," he said.
Of his public apology, "When you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now, I've never felt that type of strength."
Apologizing to his wife Elin and mother Kultida about his many mistresses were the "low points" for Woods, who gave five minutes to both ESPN and Golf Channel.
"I hurt them the most," he said. "Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to - and to say the things that I've done truthfully to them was very painful."
While he wouldn't go into the post-Thanksgiving meltdown, saying it's either in the police report or between Elin Woods and himself, he was asked some hard ones.
But why not seek help sooner? "I didn't know I was that bad."
On why he had so many affairs? "Just one is enough."
While we would have preferred he comment on his Joslyn James sexting, Tiger did have a great line about fans' reaction to his comeback, saying "It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there ... I hope they clap for birdies too."
Tiger also confirmed he's not finished with treatment.
"As far as my schedule going forward," he said. "I don't know what I'm going to do. What I know I have to do is become a better person, and that begins with more treatment. Just because I'm competing again doesn't mean I'm done."
Follow the jump for videos of Tiger Woods' interviews ...
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August 27th, 2010 4:09 AM
Healing!!!! from what???? I dont know how you could accept excuses like that...
I feel sorry for his ex wife!
March 27th, 2010 6:22 PM
He always said he didn't want to be called black so I don't know why black men are defending him. The worse black man in our ghetto wouldn't demean/belittle/brutalize/sodomize and act like a damn miser with any woman. I'M GLAD HE'S NOT BLACK. SO WHITE FOLKS AND ASIANS U CAN HAVE THIS 'N' WORD.
March 23rd, 2010 3:58 PM
I found some people are unfairly critical to Tiger...For his public apology, some said Tiger was not authentic since reading from a script (but who won't get a script for a 13 mins speech televised to public) and his no Q & A(but Tiger is human , so what if he was not ready pyschologically for Q & A)...Now when Tiger gave an interview allowing Q & A, some commented as too short and too late... Some even said 5 hours are more reasonable rather than 5 mins... But to be frank, Tiger owed us nothing in providing answers, so those who said they wanted answers from Tiger is too much overbearing... Some said they don't believe in Tiger's answer of Team Tiger not being the accomplice... Some said they don't believe in Tiger's response that he love Elin... How ridiculous ! When Tiger didn't answer stuff, people complain... When Tiger answer stuff, people said they don't believe... These people merely want Tiger to answer in the way they want Tiger to say... Some people said they ar
March 23rd, 2010 3:51 PM
Scum, pure scum. Once a whore monger always a whore monger.
March 23rd, 2010 3:45 PM
The best solution for couple is always to face and solve the problem together mutually supporting each other… This is very diffcult time for both Tiger and Elin… In order to battle the storm (against the tabloid exaggerating on gossip..and against the revenge actions and talks by alleged mistresses to ruin the WOODS marriage) , Tiger needs to support Elin and Elin needs to support Tiger… It is when Tiger is weak or when Elin is weak that give chance to others to “eat up” their marriage… At times, I feel how come there are people in this world that want to see an end to someone’s marriage.. Probably they are jealous of Tiger’s wealth and fame as well as they are jealous of Elin in having a glorious sunset marriage years ago and want an end to Cinderella story… In short, they want Tiger to suffer as well as Tiger/Elin to lose their marriage because deep inside, they don’t want to see others happier and better off than themselves… So Tiger/Elin, be strong and underst
March 23rd, 2010 1:14 PM
It is good that Tiger said he did some pretty bad things...It is good that he went for rehab... So now when those JJ or alleged mistresses came up with whatever texts, stories of their sex relationship with Tiger, these acts had already been "covered in scope" with what Tiger said and declared sorry for... Ha ha ! Whatever things this JJ now said became just her talk of last minutes grab to fame with no useful bait to squeeze money from Tiger...
March 23rd, 2010 5:22 AM
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March 23rd, 2010 12:12 AM
jessica U R probably one of the people who talked about a 19 year old BOY named Chris Brown for defending himself against an abuser in the only way he knew how.
Tiger is a grown cruel evil miserly user man who deserves to fade away in the sunset.
March 22nd, 2010 6:24 PM
To Diane: You are being very rude and unfair... Tiger's mother is not a hooker... Even if you don't like a person, don't blackmouth his mother or his family members... You lose your own self dignity in citing people inherit genes for whatever problems.. If someone said your parents gave you the bad genes to blackmout people, how do you feel ? I am not blackmouthing you nor your genes.. I just want to let you know your saying of someone's inheritance of problem genes is disgusting !
March 22nd, 2010 6:23 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN...HE IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER ELITE ATHLETE...HE BRINGS IN THE BIG MONEY...THE TOUR PROS WANT HIM BACK FOR THE DRAW, THE PUBLICITY AND THE MONEY...DON'T FORGET THAT MOST OF THEM ARE FROM THE SAME, SILVER SPOON COUNTRY CLUB BACK-GROUND. THIS IS NOTHING NEW...HE GOT CAUGHT; WHO KNOWS WHO IS NEXT...IS PHIL MICKELSON HOLIER THAN THOU...I PUT MY MONEY ON GOLFERS LIKE FRED COUPLES, TOM WATSON, ERNIE ELS...THESE ARE CLASS ACTS. EVEN VJ SINGH TALKS WITH HIS GAME. QUIET TO A POINT THAT THE PUBLICITY IS NOT AS FAVOURABLE AS IT SHOULD.
TIGER WOODS ONLY ADS TO THE PUBLIC IMAGE THAT THE PRETTY BOYS OF THE CLUB DO NOT WANT.
BIG DEAL. NOW THE PUBLIC IS AWARE OF THE ATTITUDE OF THE PROFESSIONAL GOLF POPULATION...MONEY FIRST...HOME VALUES FOR SOME..PRICELESS!