Now that Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren divorce proceedings are officially done, Elin Nordegren has spoken up about her ordeal through which she had kept mum til now.
In an interview with People, she said, “I’ve been through hell,” the 30 year old Swedish-born former nanny told the publication. “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.”
She met Tiger Woods when she was 21 when she was the nanny for a golfer friend of Tiger Woods and said she never once suspected of the affairs.
“I’m so embarrassed that I never suspected – not a one. For the last three and a half years, when all this was going on, I was home a lot more with pregnancies, then the children and my school,” she said.
“There was never any violence inside or outside our home,” she said. “The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous.”
Since then Nordegren said she has experienced various emotions.
“The word betrayal isn’t strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart,” she said, before later adding,”I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”
She and Woods tried for “months and months” to reconcile, she added, but “without trust and love” it wasn’t possible. “Forgiveness takes time”, she added.
When asked about his ex-wife’s comments, Tiger Woods said he “wished her the best in everything.”
“It’s a sad time in our lives. And we’re looking forward to – in our lives and how we can help our kids the best way we possibly can. And that’s the most important thing,” he said.
Woods and Nordegren share custody of a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.
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