Elin Nordegren: Tragic victim, or fortunate gold digger? Get your opinions in now, folks; because I have a feeling this is the last we’ll be seeing of the Swedish Miss for quite some time. With her People interview now complete, she’s finally on the record and will most likely fade from view in Grace Kelly fashion, if we let her. The paparazzi are a tenacious breed, and avoiding them will not be easy, even in Scandinavia. But Elin has the perfect complexion to blend in with snow. I think we’ve pretty much seen and heard the last of her.
So, why the People interview in the first place? What was her end game?
Nordegren (she’s had the “Woods” part of her name surgically removed) figured that in order to truly be free, to escape the notion that she was a money-grabbing hussy just out for Tiger’s dough, that she would have to bet it all and play the ultimate card: the one with V for ‘victim’ in two corners. The People interview was replete with it. We had Elin the plucky survivor:
“I’ve been through hell. It’s hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden — was it a lie? You’re struggling because it wasn’t real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn’t kill me.”
Elin, barefoot and pregnant:
“I’m so embarrassed that I never suspected — not a one. I felt stupid as more was revealed — how could I have not known anything? The word ‘betrayal’ isn’t strong enough. I felt like my whole life had fallen apart. For the past 3 1/2 years, when all this was going on, I was home a lot more with pregnancies, then the children and my school.”
Elin the magnanimous:
“Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.”
Elin the meek:
“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. I did everything I could to get him out of the locked car. To think anything else is absolutely wrong.”
There’s no chance that Tiger is going to address this mess anytime soon, so Elin had the court of public opinion all to herself, and she played it perfectly. To hear her tell it, she’s almost a saint.
But the fact remains that there’s always going to be a segment of the public who consider Elin a conniving opportunist. She’s a nanny who got the world’s richest athlete to marry her, and cashed in for $100 million-plus. I can’t help but think of the Woody Allen movie Love and Death here:
SONJA: “I guess you could say I’m half saint, half whore.”
BORIS: “Here’s hoping I get the half that eats.”
I’m also thinking of Ray Romano, as strange as that sounds. It was at a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe a couple of years ago, when Romano was seen ogling a gorgeous lady near the first tee. A man in the gallery yelled out, “What’s your wife going to say?” And Romano replied, “Tell her to go cry on a bag of my money.”
No matter how deftly Elin plays the victim’s role from now on, there are always people who are going to tell her to go cry on a bag of Tiger’s money. That’s probably not fair, but that’s the way it is.
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Woods’ ex-wife says she ‘went through hell’ [NBCSports]
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- CHEETAH - Aug 28, 2010 at 4:42 AM
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FIRST OFF, U HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ELIN DID TO MAKE TIGER MARRY HER. FOR ALL WE KNOW, HE WANTED TO MARRY HER TO HELP HIM WITH HIS IMAGE! HE EVEN SAID IN AN ARTICLE A FEW YEARS AGO THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR MONTHS TO ASK HER TO MARRY HIM, SO IF SHE WAS THE ONE WHO FORCED HIM TO DO SO THEN HE WOULDN’T HAVE BOTHERED PLANNING TO ASK HER TO MARRY HIM. HE EVEN ASKED HIS MOM TO HELP HIM FIND A RING FOR HER, SO OBVIOUSLY HE WAS VERY KEEN TO MARRY HER. AND FYI, MAYBE THEIR MARRIAGE MAY HAVE STOOD A CHANCE IF HIS AFFAIRS HADN’T BEEN CONTINUOUSLY PUBLICIZED FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, AND IF HIS MISTRESSES HADN’T DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WHAT HE WAS LIKE IN BED WITH THEM. AND NOT ONLY THAT, MAYBE IF HE HADN’T GONE BACK TO GOLF SO QUICKLY AND INSTEAD FOCUSED ON WORKING THINGS OUT WITH HER, THINGS MIGHT HAVE WORKED OUT BETWEEN THEM. IT WAS REPORTED NOT SO LONG AGO THAT SHE DIDN’T WANT TO DIVORCE HIM, THAT SHE WANTED TO WORK THINGS OUT WITH HIM FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR CHILDREN EVEN THOUGH SHE FELT ANGRY FOR WHAT HE DID TO HER. EVEN THEN, PEOPLE WERE INSULTING HER AND IMPLYING THAT SHE WAS ONLY STICKING WITH HIM FOR HIS MONEY. NOW THAT SHE FINALLY RESOLVED TO DIVORCE HIM, PEOPLE ARE STILL SAYING SHE WAS ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY BECAUSE SHE CHOSE NOT TO STICK AROUND WITH HIM! SHE COULD HAVE GOTTEN A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN 100 MILLION IF SHE STUCK WITH HIM FOR 1O YEARS! IF SHE WERE A GOLD DIGGER, THEN SHE WOULD HAVE WAITED TILL AFTER 10 YEARS TO DIVORCE TIGER! AND BTW, TIGER HAD TOLD THE WOMEN HE WAS WITH ABOUT HOW UNATTRACTIVE HE FOUND ELIN WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT, HOW HE DIDN’T LOVE HER AND HOW MUCH HE LOVED HIS OTHER MISTRESS INSTEAD, RACHEL WHAT’S HER NAME, AND FELT SHE WAS HIS SOULMATE! SO YES, IT ABSOLUTELY DOES MAKE SENSE THAT ELIN WOULD CHOOSE TO DIVORCE HIM WHEN HE EVEN CRITICIZED HER, EVEN WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT, TO HIS MISTRESSES! TIGER IS A DOG FOR WHAT HE DID TO HER AND TO THEIR CHILDREN. GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT SHE OR THEIR KIDS MAY HAVE GOTTEN FROM THOSE WOMEN HE SLEPT WITH SINCE HE ALSO CHEATED ON HER, UNPROTECTED, WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH THEIR KIDS! MAYBE PART OF THE REASON WHY HE GAVE HER SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT IS COZ SHE ACTUALLY CONTRACTED AN STD FROM HIM THANKS TO HIS CHEATING WAYS. OBVIOUSLY, SINCE U BELIEVE TIGER IS A GOD, U WON’T EVER LAY THE BLAME ON HIM AND BLAME IT ON THE VICTIM INSTEAD.
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- greeneyed monster - Aug 28, 2010 at 4:49 AM
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maybe the prenup also stated that if he ever cheated on her with DOZENS of women, then the prenup is broken. and also, maybe he gave her more than what was in the prenup because he might have given her a little nasty present from sleeping around with so many women. ironic that you’re so willing to forgive woods and look past his infidelities yet when it comes to his ex wife, you’re so quick to judge her and blame her for not sticking with what was in the prenup. it’s none of your business what he gave her, it’s his money and he obviously felt she deserved at least a portion of it.
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- gail - Aug 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM
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Regarding Romano, if he didn’t have any loot, I’m not sure he could grab any women at all. If you watched any of the footage from his golf lessons with Hank Haney, this guy is already a chick in guy’s clothing. He talks and whines like a girl, and looks like a kid. There’s not much charismatic about him, and I’m sure his wife is only on board because of the loot….
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- YORK, GORDON R. - Aug 30, 2010 at 12:31 AM
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Mrs. Wood
I hope this letter fine you in the best of health,You and your
Kids. God said that we are all sinner,s. Do that make Mr. Wood right not at all. From the start it was not right an it will not Be right until Jesus come back. the sad part is, YOU SAID I WILL BE THEIR FOR GOOD ARE BAD, so did you lie to him are GOD. beleave me Mr Wood is drying in side. I think you have ask your self did You really love him. I been their Mrs.Wood I made that mistake but it was the other way around I left but I was dead in side PRIED an The people in this life will help you take your heart away from you. Mrs Wood for give yourself an then for give Mr. Wood. my Point is GOD did not but you her for you, but to beleave in him give it too him an he will give you peace. Mrs Wood I know this e-mail Will not make it to you. God will make it right don,t let your family take away what GOD have put in place. people where taking About you before you married Mr. Wood again he made a mistake are you truth to yourself an both of your kids don,t let people change your mine. give him what he really love back as well as you. not bcause I said it because GOD said it.
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- lemonella - Aug 31, 2010 at 7:31 AM
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since you are so willing to accuse some one of being girly, When did you personally ever hear him “whine?”
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- thecap - Aug 31, 2010 at 4:34 PM
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No. ‘Pre-nup’ ‘she deserves the money’ and ‘she earned it’ = business deal.
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- hemisphere - Aug 31, 2010 at 8:50 PM
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Sorry? Are you nuts?
Isn’t “Elin” Swedish for “gold digger.”
We wonder whether Tiger would have been better off with one of his ho-stesses instead of the Nanny.
If his Dad had been alive, the Nanny wouldn’t have gotten within fifteen miles of Tiger and this madness wouldn’t have happened.
Expensive golf lesson for Ti, I guess.
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- nation - Aug 31, 2010 at 9:02 PM
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Al Capone
Willie Sutton
Bernie Madoff
Elin the Nanny (and non-model)
And the winner is …
Elin the Nanny (and non-model)
Sorry for her? Yeah, right. LOL.
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- jwayne - Aug 31, 2010 at 9:22 PM
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Getting back together with that g/digging Nanny? Why? So she can take the other $500 mil Tiger has left. So he can get his head caved in with a nine iron … allegedly?
What an unforced error by Tiger — hooking up with the Nanny. Ugh.
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- Jonathan - Sep 3, 2010 at 10:10 PM
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Because people are sheep who follow others filled by negativity and believe in their own selfish thing, not to mention, society has dumbed down, so yeah, it’s sad, but true.
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- arl.o - Sep 5, 2010 at 7:44 PM
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I feel sorry for the people of Haiti…
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- RL - Sep 7, 2010 at 4:53 PM
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Or was it HE that broke the prenup but wanted her to stay?
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- weezilgirl - Sep 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM
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“if she was completely not in it for the money than why if you signed a prenup would you get lawyers and need more than 100 million dollars. eveything in life is about the money. i feel horrible for her, but she did break a prenup that she signed. she is not being completely honest with everybody.”
First of all, how do you know that TW didn’t offer her $100 million. You have NO way of knowing what went on between them. Do you? If you can prove to us that you know the details of their marriage and divorce, would you do for us? Uhhhhhhhhhh, didn’t think so.
Someday you’ll experience the “karma” that comes from lying here.
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- Blondie - Sep 17, 2010 at 12:12 AM
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I do feel sorry for her. All the $$ in the world cannot heal a broken heart. His betrayal is unforgivable. She’ll probably forgive him, when her heart has healed. I mean think about her plan to have a loving family with her husband…then her dream comes crashing down because he is a whoremonger. Every one of these females knew he was married with children, so they should have to pay her, too with the $$ Tiger gave them. I think it is called abandonment of affection (by law.) Blondie
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- Miss Lizzy - Sep 20, 2010 at 5:31 PM
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My sentiments exactly.
