Tiger Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren speaks for first time about ”wild storm” split with superstar golfer
Elin Nordegren has taken her first public swipe at ex-husband Tiger Woods for humiliation she suffered by cheating on her with over a dozen women.
The former nanny spoke about her “personal storm” and how she had endured the most challenging times of her life while addressing graduates at a Florida college.
Nordegren, who received £60m in a divorce settlement three years ago after her golf star husband’s multiple affairs made worldwide headlines, has never spoken in public about the painful split.
But she referred to the split when asked to give a speech to other graduates at a college where she was awarded a degree in psychology after nine years of part time study.
Nordegren, a mum of two, was plunged into public eye after chasing Wood’s from their Orlando, Florida, home in 2009 with a golf club when she discovered his affair with a nightclub hostess.
More than a dozen women, including two porn stars and the waitress at his local diner, came forward to say they had affairs with the world’s richest sports star.
A humiliated Woods quit golf as sponsors deserted him shocked by his extra marital affairs.
Woods went into a sex rehab clinic while Nordegren began divorce proceedings.
She joked with other graduates at Rollins College in Winter Park, near Orlando, that the publicity came soon after she had taken a class on the media.
“I was unexpectedly thrust into the media limelight,” she said.