Golf
Tiger's ex breaks silence
2010-08-25 14:11
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Washington - Tiger Woods's ex-wife Elin Nordegren has broken her silence about the couple's failed marriage, in a magazine interview expressing "shock and disbelief" upon learning about his multiple infidelities, US television reported on Wednesday.
"I've been through hell," the former Elin Woods, whose divorce from the golf superstar became final this week, said in excerpts of the cover article to be published Friday in People Magazine.
A reporter for the magazine told NBC television's Today Show program she conducted an exhaustive interview with Nordegren, 30, for 19 hours over four days, scoring the first reported accounts of Elin's reaction to the sordid sex scandal that made headlines around the world.
Nordegren told the magazine she felt "absolute shock and disbelief" when she learned about her husband's multiple infidelities, in excerpts of the article read on the news program.
"I felt stupid as more things were revealed. How could I not have known anything?" she says.
"The word betrayal isn't strong enough," Nordegren told People. "I felt like my whole world had fallen apart."
The former nanny also reportedly told the magazine that the stress from the scandal caused her insomnia and weight loss and in the days before the divorce was finalized this week, she says she began to lose her hair.
Woods, 34, and Nordegren issued a joint statement Monday saying that they were ending their "irretrievably broken" six-year marriage, wishing each other the best and promising to work together for their children's happiness.
Woods wed Nordegren in October 2004 in Barbados and the couple have a three-year-old daughter, Sam, and a 19-month-old son, Charlie.
The divorce was finalized by a Florida judge during a 10-minute hearing Monday in a conference room in Bay County Circuit Court.