The night before the world discovered the truth about Tiger Woods’ affairs, he left a voicemail that would become the final nail in his coffin.
Although it was a bombshell, the timing was quite fortuitous for Woods, with the following day being Thanksgiving, a notoriously quiet news day.
When the mysterious recipient messaged back, she called the number. Rachel Uchitel answered, the same woman who had sworn blind just days earlier that her and Woods weren’t having an affair.Rachel had also been a model and had a tragic backstory. Picture: SuppliedUchitel had led an interesting life. She graduated in 1996 with a psychology degree, but immediately slid into television news, working as a producer at Bloomberg.
Before this, the story might have been brushed off as a one-time error of judgment, a mistake, But with Grubbs’ story, the floodgates were opened. Woods’ very public downfall on November 27 is now infamous, but not everyone knows how close he came to being exposed two years earlier. But Woods’ high-powered management firm IMG and a team of 15 lawyers were able to kill the story in exchange for an exclusive cover interview and photo shoot in sister magazineThe cover of Men's Fitness Tiger did to bury his first affair expose. Picture: SuppliedAt the time, Woods notoriously avoided giving interviews to the print media, so this scoop was a far bigger deal for the company than a few blurry photos of an alleged affair.
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