Author: Tiger Woods had mistress call wife

"(Rachel) called Tiger's wife, had a half-hour conversation with her, and at the end of that call -- according to Elin's friends -- she was convinced they were just friends," Posner said. "On Thanksgiving, more information came out about the purported affair. Elin got aggravated, they had a fight, and Tiger threw the towel in, said, 'I'm going to sleep,' took an Ambien, a sleeping pill, and went to bed."

This is when Nordegren looked at Woods' cellphone, which he had left out, Posner said.
"On that cellphone he had text messages (from Uchitel). ... His wife went through it," Posner said. "She found one message that said to Rachel, 'You're the only one I've loved.' That was absolutely a killer, of course. And then she decided to text the mistress, pretending she was Tiger, saying, 'When am I going to see you? I miss you.' And Rachel Uchitel wrote back saying, 'I'm surprised you're awake.' And that indicated to the wife that obviously they had talked that  night.

"His wife actually had the courage to call the girlfriend and said, 'I know it was you!' The girlfriend said an expletive and hung up the phone. At that point, Elin ... explodes, wakes up Tiger -- who's in a stupor because of his Ambien -- and he compounds the situation. He locks himself in the bathroom for a few minutes. When he comes out, Elin grabs his phone, which he'd taken in with him, and he has sent yet another text message to Rachel Uchitel saying something to the effect of, 'She knows, I'm packing, possible divorce.' "

At that point, Nordegren "loses it," Posner said.

"She starts -- according to her friends -- to hit him with her fists on his chest and on his arms, and then she grabs a golf club." Posner said. "He hightails it out of there, gets into the Escalade barefoot, and the next thing you know is the accident, he hits the hydrant and slams into a tree, she's chasing him with the golf club, and that's the accident that starts to unravel everything for him."

Posner said his sources didn't know the details of how the rear windows in the Escalade were knocked out, with one saying Woods tried to protect his wife by telling police that she shattered the windows trying to free him.

According to Posner, representatives for Woods -- who reportedly is at a sex-addiction rehab clinic in Mississippi -- did not reply to multiple requests for comment.

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