Tiger Woods

[sanlee 49]

Woods Announces Comeback

 

Disgraced sportsman TIGER WOODS is returning to golf at the Masters tournament in Georgia in April (10).

 

The star took a hiatus from the game at the end of last year (09), after his extra-marital affairs were exposed in the U.S. tabloids.

 

Woods has since apologised for his behaviour and undergone sex therapy treatment at a clinic in Mississippi.

 

He has also been working on repairing his marriage to Elin Nordegren, and now he insists he's ready to return to golf.

 

A statement from Woods reads, "The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from golf, I feel I am ready to start my season at Augusta."

 

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[l1zz1e 0]

Tiger Woods Interviews to Air Tonight

 

ESPN will air a one-on-one interview with Tiger Woods tonight.

 

The interview will air at 7:30 PM ET.

 

UPDATE: Looks like there might be TWO Tiger Woods interviews airing tonight at the same time -- one on ESPN and one on The Golf Channel.

 

UPDATE 2: Both ESPN and The Golf Channel have promoted the interview. ESPN said the interview was conducted this morning and their reporter was allowed to ask whatever questions he wanted. Woods answered some, declined others, but was cordial throughout.

 

Read some highlights of the interview after the jump ...

 

 

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[sanlee 49]

Tiger Woods opens up about affair controversy

 

 

Shamed golfer Tiger Woods has opened up about his marriage scandal in the first interview since his infidelities hit the tabloids - revealing he is trying to "make amends" for his actions.

 

The sports star's career and clean-cut image were rocked last year when news of his numerous affairs behind wife Elin Nordegren's back hit the headlines.

 

He entered a rehab facility for sexual addiction therapy before apologizing to his family, friends and colleagues in a statement last month.

 

And now Woods has admitted he was "living a lie" and deeply regrets hurting his wife and his mom over the controversy.

 

Speaking to ESPN reporter Tom Rinaldi, the golfer says, "I was living a lie, I really was. And I was doing a lot of things that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial, and rationalization, you start coming to the truth of who you really are, and that can be very ugly...

 

"When you face it, and you start conquering it, and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now. I have never felt that type of strength...

 

"I had a lot of low points. Just when I didn't think it could get any lower it got lower. There were so many different low points. People I had to talk to and face like my wife, like my mom. I hurt them the most. Those are the two people in my life who I am the closest to and to say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is... honestly... was... very painful.

 

"(Elin) was hurt, she was hurt. Very hurt. Shocked. Angry. She had every right to be and I am disappointed as everyone else in my own behavior because I can't believe I actually did that to the people I loved... I've made my mistakes. I have hurt so many people. I have to make amends and that's living a life of amends."

 

Watch the video below to see Wood's interview with Tom Rinaldi:

 

 

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[BobbyD 2]

Report: Jordan taught Tiger how to womanize

"I told him, ‘Stay away from that son of a b----,’ golfer's ex-lawyer says

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During the 2000s Tiger Woods was like Mike.

 

But Woods emulated the high-flying, opponent crushing superstar in more ways than just athletic dominance, friends say.

 

Tiger also learned from Mike how to womanize like a pro, according to Woods’ former lawyer and adviser John Merchant.

 

"I told him, ‘Stay away from that son of a b---- [Jordan], because he doesn't have anything to offer to the f---ing world in which he lives except playing basketball," Merchant told Vanity Fair in a bombshell interview hitting newsstands today.

 

Quoting Merchant and self-professed Tiger ladies Jamie Jungers, Mindy Lawton and Loredana Jolie Ferriolo, the article paints a picture of the world's top golfer as a sex-crazed, high-stakes gambler who felt no remorse about the double life that shamed his family.

 

It’s not an unfamiliar story. Jordan went through one of the most expensive divorces in history in 2007 when he and wife Juanita split after years of rumored infidelity.

 

But Tiger wasn’t just imitating Air Jordon. The basketball star played a role in his affairs, the magazine says.

 

Michelle Braun, a "matchmaker" who claims to have procured girls for Woods, said she steered Ferriolo to Woods while he was at a Bahamas casino. Ferriolo said that Jordan, who was also there, sent a bodyguard to try to intercept her.

 

"I walked over to him and he grabbed my hand. I walked away, and he kind of gave chase. He goes, 'I'm Michael Jordan. I will find you.'"

 

But Woods had plunked down $15,000 for the meeting with Ferriolo, according to Braun. Ferriolo, who claims to be writing a book about her affair with Woods, claims she fell hard for the golf superstar.

 

"He made me fall in love," Ferriolo said. "I couldn't believe that he would turn out to be such a playboy."

 

Woods, whose once pristine image has been in the deep rough since an ugly Thanksgiving night incident and subsequent revelations of philandering, is planning to make his big return to competitive golf at the Masters, from April 8-11. But while Woods can still swing a club better than anyone on the planet, the prestigious tournament comes as he battles to save his marriage.

 

Jungers said that after a 2005 assignation with Woods in Las Vegas, she asked him about his home life.

 

"How's your marriage?" Jungers said she asked Woods.

 

"Good," Woods allegedly replied, adding that Nordegren was in her native Sweden "with her sister."

[BobbyD 2]

Mistresses: Tiger was cheap, obsessed with sex

Vanity Fair story is portrait of a tawdry secret life encouraged by enablers

NBCSports.com

By Mike Celizic

TODAYshow.com contributor

updated 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

 

Just when Tiger Woods thought it was safe to go back to hitting golf balls, another magazine article packed with revelations is hitting the newsstands.

 

The portrait of Woods painted in the current issue of Vanity Fair by several of his former mistresses is beyond unflattering. As written by contributing editor Mark Seal, it is a lurid and tawdry tale of a voracious sex addict who is also both a high-stakes gambler and a notorious cheapskate.

 

In addition, Seal reveals that Woods’ deceased father, Earl Woods, was also a womanizer who once showed up drunk at a father-of-the-year awards dinner at which he was the honoree.

 

A double life

“This is a story all about duplicity,” Seal told TODAY’s Ann Curry Wednesday in New York. “On one hand, you have a man who’s holding himself out to be a paragon of family values, but yet he led a secret life. And it all came crashing down only four months ago, which is a remarkably short amount of time — on Thanksgiving night in his home.”

 

What’s more, Seal reports, Woods’ inner circle of friends and even his agent were involved in covering up his infidelities. If true, this revelation would contradict Woods’ insistence that he kept his philandering a secret from everyone, including those closest to him.

 

TODAY

New revelations about Tiger Woods appear in the latest issue of Vanity Fair.

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Seal spoke to three of Woods’ women for the article: cocktail waitress and lingerie model Jamie Jungers, waitress Mindy Lawton and former Playboy model Loredana Jolie Ferriolo. He also spoke to Michelle Braun, who ran an escort service that she says Woods used to set up some of his assignations.

 

The women paint Woods as being sexually insatiable as well as extraordinarily cheap. Only one, Ferriolo, said he bought her anything substantial when he allowed her to charge a $15,000 shopping spree to his hotel room. Lawton said he once bought her a Subway chicken-wrap sandwich. Jungers told Seal one of the reasons she broke off her affair with Woods was because he refused to help her when she needed financial assistance.

 

Although Woods had a number of mistresses, none knew about the others, Seal said.

 

“The sad thing about it is, they all seemed to think they were the only one,” he told Curry.

 

‘Hell hath no fury’

None of the women was paid by Vanity Fair for her story. Curry asked Seal why they came forward.

 

“I think hell hath no fury,” Seal said. “The women came forward. They all seemed to keep some sort of evidence — text messages, e-mails, phone calls — as if they were going to use them at a later date, which indeed they have.”

 

Lawton was a waitress at a Perkins restaurant near Woods’ Florida home. She told Seal she met him when he came in for breakfast with his wife, Elin. As the couple were eating, she said, Woods was eyeing her with obvious desire.

 

Lawton said that Woods would meet her in a CVS parking lot and they would both drive to his home, where they had wild sex in the garage, the kitchen, the den and everywhere else — except for the master bedroom.

 

She also had sex with him in his car in a parking lot, and The National Enquirer found evidence of it.

 

“Mindy Lawton in the story says that after the Enquirer allegedly found out about the affair, she called Tiger and Tiger told her to call [Woods’ agent] Mark Steinberg, and he said, ‘We’ll take care of it,’ ” Seal said.

 

This directly contradicts Woods’ statement that Steinberg knew nothing of his infidelities.

 

Encouragers and enablers

The women also said that one of Woods’ oldest friends and business partners, Bryon Bell, facilitated the affairs by setting up “meetings” with Woods and arranging air travel — always in coach.

 

Woods’ former attorney, John Merchant, also talked to Seal, and said that he had warned Woods early in his career to stay away from former NBA superstars Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, both notorious high-stakes gamblers.

 

“Stay away from that son of a bitch, because he doesn’t have anything to offer to the f------ world in which he lives except playing basketball,” Merchant said he told Woods in regard to Jordan.

 

As for both Jordan and Barkley, Merchant told Seal, “Are they his black role models? You’ve got to be kidding me.”

 

Seal said Woods would sometimes gamble in special high-roller suites in Las Vegas with Jordan and Barkley, playing $25,000 on a hand of blackjack.

 

Sins of the father

The picture of Woods’ father is also unflattering, especially a story about Earl Woods being drunk at a dinner at which he was being honored as father of the year.

 

As reported in Vanity Fair, an unnamed source told Seal:

 

“Everybody was in coat and tie, and Earl’s sitting there in these little hot pants — short-shorts — and a golf shirt, and he’s got a big old vodka gimlet going and a cigarette burning, and he’s sound asleep, just hammered ... And the announcer says, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Earl Woods!’ And he jumped up, spilled his drink all over the front of his shirt … And he gets up there at the podium and starts talking psychobabble.”

 

“We have to give Earl Woods credit, first of all,” Seal told Curry when she asked about that episode. “He was a very dedicated man. He made Tiger Woods into the great golfer that he is, but at the same time, sources told me, he had another side to him … This is what I was told.”

 

Despite the lurid revelations, Seal said he believes Woods can redeem himself beginning next week, when he is scheduled to play in the Masters, his first tournament since his downfall began last Thanksgiving night.

 

“People will be hoping that he can come out of this. I mean, if he can focus on that ball again and put all this behind him and come out and win, what a comeback that would be,” Seal told Curry.

 

“I think winning does a lot.”

 

Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36112949/ns/.../#ixzz0jlrnTErV

[galaxygirl 0]

So I'm read on another gossip site that Elin is preggers, anyone else read that?

[ElleDriver 0]

10 Million Reasons Tiger Was Afraid of Rachel

 

 

 

TMZ has learned Rachel Uchitel -- the pilgrim of alleged mistresses -- settled up with Tiger Woods for waaaaaaay more than you think ... as in $10 MILLION!!

 

There were numerous reports Rachel settled on the brink of holding a Gloria Allred-style news conference for anywhere between $2 - 5 million.

 

But our sources -- and they are good -- tell TMZ Tiger was so concerned with the depth and detail of information from Alleged Mistress #1 that they folded like a cheap suit, and offered the huge $10 million sum in return for an ironclad confidentiality agreement.

 

TMZ has learned the actual settlement could fluctuate $1 million either way, depending on future circumstances. But the baseline is $10 mil.

 

Compare Rachel's settlement with what other A.M's received, if they got anything at all. We're told several mistresses got several hundred thousand dollars, and others got nothing. That speaks volumes about how much Rachel knows.

 

Insiders are saying Rachel's settlement could be a precursor to what Elin Nordegren could get if she pulls the plug on her marriage to Tiger. Reports that Elin could get $300 million under the prenup are absurd. It's more likely the prenup is in the $5 - 10 million range, with provisions for support. But insiders tell us -- with the backdrop of Rachel's settlement -- there's no way Tiger would get off cheaper than $20 mil.

[princess 1,712]

So I'm read on another gossip site that Elin is preggers, anyone else read that?

Yup.

 

 

 

 

Is Elin Nordegren Woods Pregnant? Tiger Woods Wife Pregnancy Rumors – First all of these huge family disputes and public propaganda with Tiger Woods having multiple mistresses that he keeps secret from his beloved wife Elin Nordegren, and now rumors are coming up that she could be pregnant. Yes I said that correctly, pregnant! Things might be getting even worse for the couple as it’s likely that Tiger will soon take the spotlight for many more weeks over again.

 

Elin Nordegren is reported to be staying with Tiger and trying to make the marriage work as he seeks out more therapy and help for his so called “sex addiction.” I thought when people had a sex addiction they did weird sex acts and were caught with strange sex toys, Tiger just seems to enjoy cheating on his wife and causing a heart ache for the family. The National Enquirer snapped pictures of Elin Nordegren and it appears and recent trips to the doctor apparently confirm that she is up to four months pregnant already.

 

She’s sure to have a difficult time keeping things quiet from the media since reports are already revealing themselves and her protruding belly is sure to begin to show anytime. Don’t be too quick to say that this rumor may only be a tall tail and untrue because the National Enquirer was in fact the very first to report on Tiger Woods when the scandal first came up. Elin’s been acting extremely quiet about it and her signs of a growing belly as well as her behavior have reporters saying that these are distinct signs of her pregnancy. Another baby in a time like this could be a real struggle for the family just as Tiger trying to clean himself up and what are the kids going to think of this when they are older?

[Freckles 79]

[b]Tiger Woods snubbed by wife Elin on eve of his big golf comeback

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As her shamed husband prepared for the Masters in Augusta, the 30-year-old beauty was instead cheering on players at the prestigious Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

 

 

Tiger Woods was snubbed by wife Elin on the eve of his big golf comeback – as she went to a tennis tournament instead.

 

As her shamed husband prepared for the Masters in Augusta, the 30-year-old beauty was instead cheering on players at the prestigious Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

 

She reportedly left their home in Orlando earlier this week, furious that Woods was going back on his promise to take time out from golf to be with his family.

 

The former model completed the snub in the most public way, by showing up with their 18-month-old baby, Charlie, at the prestigious tennis tournament looking glamorous, happy and carefree.

 

Now as Woods prepares for his first golf tournament since the bizarre November car crash that led to his fall from grace, Elin is instead cheering on tennis players.

 

Woods, who admitted to being nervous about his return to the game, is already thought to be in Augusta, Georgia.

 

He is due to hit the green on Monday as players begin their last practice sessions before the tournament, which begins on Thursday.

 

A source reportedly told Radar Online: “Elin is showing Tiger she’s not dependent on him and she won’t be his doormat.”

[Kath 153]

This is from the Aweful Truth

 

Dear Ted:

With Tiger Woods and now Jesse James going to sex addiction rehab, do you really think there is such a thing—especially with these guys—or an attempt for some sort of positive publicity since they were getting sliced and diced by the media and public? Men (and women) have cheated on their spouses for centuries, suddenly, now it is an addiction, especially among the famous and only after they get caught. I think it is a bunch of hooey!

—CB

 

Dear Doctor's Diagnosis:

Sex rehab—at least the one Tiger and Jesse are claiming to attend—would better be called Douchebags Annonymous. Of course it's only for PR—and possibly to get in good with the wifey. Haven't you heard the saying "you're only sorry because you got caught"? Duh.

 

Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_t...l#ixzz0kFyiRolL

[Kath 153]

Grounded Tiger Banners -- Better Late Than Never

 

Originally posted Apr 14th 2010 12:20 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

 

The mysterious banner attack on Tiger Woods continued in Augusta yesterday -- with a new cheap shot at Jesse James -- but it all went down 2 days after the intended target skipped town.

As TMZ first reported, the FAA grounded the plane after just 2 successful runs over the Masters golf tourney this past weekend -- leaving the remaining signs out of the sky.

 

But Tuesday, the unknown prankster behind the stunt got another plane up and running and sent his new messages up in the air -- one that read, "You knew Stevie. You knew" ... a reference to Tiger's caddy Steve Williams, who denied knowing anything about Tiger's affairs.

 

The other banner read, "Tiger: Still on for the 4some? Jesse James."

 

This ain't the last we're gonna see of the aerial attacks, we're told the prankster's already drawing up plans to get back in the air.

Edited April 14, 2010 by Kath

[Filippa 0]

I thought those aerial attacks were hilariuos ! Sorry :4biggrin:

[Baby Doll 77]

I thought those aerial attacks were hilariuos ! Sorry :4biggrin:

Me too. :4biggrin: They both deserve all the ridicule they're getting.

[Kath 153]

Elin Nordegren may be so over Tiger Woods, but is Tiger over his estranged wife, too?

 

We hear the divorce is still "100 percent happening," and if you didn't already know, Tiger is pretty much to blame for that one.

 

But it's not just the mistresses that solidified T and E's fate...

 

"The writing is on the wall," says our well-versed source close to all things Tiger. "He committed to several additional golf tournaments, which effectively says eff you, Elin. She was not in support of him returning to golf. His self-imposed hiatus didn't last long; he screwed up big-time at the Masters and has left his calm, cool, collected image in ruins."

 

Our insider, who has dealings with Woods both professionally and socially, believes an official divorce announcement is seconds away. But we're told that exactly how the divorce will be announced has potential to be quite the battle between Tiger and Elin.

 

Dishes Deep Tiger:

 

"Even [the divorce] will be negotiated. Does [Tiger] take the high road and 'allow' her to file, or can he not stand the idea of people thinking he wasn't in control? What will the statement say regarding custody? Right now, you'd think he'll be bargaining for joint physical custody when she'll surely want to piss him off and file for sole custody. And spousal/child support? I daresay things are about to get even juicer now."

 

OK, T.W., seriously, if you have any respect for your family and want to salvage your future relationship with your kids, please please please take the high road.

 

Perhaps we're giving the golfer too much credit, but we think Elin will be the one to file. After all, if Tiger is the one to file for divorce first, that certainly isn't going to help his PR comeback one damn bit. Elin definitely needs the one to get the final say...in print. Don't you agree?

 

Not sure if we're ready for newly single Tiger Woods to hit the dating market.

 

 

Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_t...l#ixzz0mXxvIfTb

[Kath 153]

Elin Nordegren wants $750M from Tiger Woods, won't agree to 'confidentiality clause' in divorce talk

Saturday, May 22nd 2010, 4:00 AM

 

Divorce negotiations between Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren have turned ugly, according to recent reports. Related NewsElin spotted jogging without ring; mag reports she will divorce TigerTiger Woods' philandering ways detailed in new tomeReporter's on-air gaffe hits Tiger Woods in the pantsTiger Woods, Elin Nordegren will share joint custody: reportChange looks like effort to restore Harmon-yIt's a high price for silence.

 

Wronged wife Elin Nordegren is trying to club an eye-popping $750 million out of Tiger Woods in their divorce negotiations, according to reports Friday.

 

Woods hasn't agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage - forever, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

 

Nordegren has so far said no to signing a lifetime "confidentiality clause" that would prevent her from writing a book or doing any interviews about the split.

 

She reportedly also wants full custody of their two kids even though it was first thought the couple were going to agree to joint custody.

 

Sources said the divorce negotiations "have turned extremely testy" and the couple no longer talk to each other.

 

Nordegren has spent a lot of time away from Woods in recent months. She went to Arizona alone for nearly a week recently and took the kids to Sweden while Woods played golf.

 

Woods, meanwhile, is hanging out in Florida with a blond woman, who looks a lot like Elin, RadarOnline reported.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/tigerwoo...l#ixzz0ohdzgON6

[BobbyD 2]

If this is true...I think she's wrong. She needs to sign the confidentiality agreement and move on.

[akua123 0]

Isn't that the whole point of the big bucks, so she'll keep silent? Maybe just a negotiating tactic. .

[Kath 153]

She needs to think of the children. Yeah, dad's a vile creep, but they don't need to have mom spilling his secrets far and wide.

 

As for the $750 million... Even being cheated on with every ho in town doesn't warrant $150 million/ year.

[Serendipity 12]

She needs to think of the children. Yeah, dad's a vile creep, but they don't need to have mom spilling his secrets far and wide.

 

As for the $750 million... Even being cheated on with every ho in town doesn't warrant $150 million/ year.

I don't think there are any more secrets left to spill. The affairs have been widely publicized, milked and made fun of. It's not like the children won't be able to read juicy details on dad and his girlfriends (who have been more than willing to talk and be seen at every opportunity afforded them) on the internet or in Vanity Fair magazine, so they might as well hear the truth as Mom saw it and lived it. Better than speculation and gossip.

[l1zz1e 0]

She needs to think of the children. Yeah, dad's a vile creep, but they don't need to have mom spilling his secrets far and wide.

 

As for the $750 million... Even being cheated on with every ho in town doesn't warrant $150 million/ year.

I don't think there are any more secrets left to spill. The affairs have been widely publicized, milked and made fun of. It's not like the children won't be able to read juicy details on dad and his girlfriends (who have been more than willing to talk and be seen at every opportunity afforded them) on the internet or in Vanity Fair magazine, so they might as well hear the truth as Mom saw it and lived it. Better than speculation and gossip.

 

and if there are more secrets, someone will spill them and make money from them, it will affect the kids regardless of who does the spilling, at least if it's elin there would be lots of money for the kids therapy.

[Maxiemom 623]

At this point, I have to think that it's more about making Tiger publically stew in his own juices for a while. I mean, is the difference between an 8 or 9 digit settlement really going to significantly alter the way Elin goes about her life post Tiger?

[BobbyD 2]

She needs to think of the children. Yeah, dad's a vile creep, but they don't need to have mom spilling his secrets far and wide.

 

As for the $750 million... Even being cheated on with every ho in town doesn't warrant $150 million/ year.

I don't think there are any more secrets left to spill. The affairs have been widely publicized, milked and made fun of. It's not like the children won't be able to read juicy details on dad and his girlfriends (who have been more than willing to talk and be seen at every opportunity afforded them) on the internet or in Vanity Fair magazine, so they might as well hear the truth as Mom saw it and lived it. Better than speculation and gossip.

 

I do think hearing the so-called "truth" from Mom makes it all the more ugly than media reports. We all know she's going 2 trash him in her book and at the end of the day...the slime that he is, he is still the Father of her children. He will be their Father and she'll be able to use the media to trash him unlike other regular women who have been cheated upon.

 

Her taking $750 and still trashing him could backfire on her. Tiger's affairs are now old news. We've heard it all(or at least all we care to know). How much more money does she really need? We know the book deal is for more $ to go with the $750million! I also seriously doubt she's going to write about what she did or what really happened on the night of the initial car accident. Wouldn't she have to include that in her book about the "truth?"

 

Tiger should've had a confidentiality agreement prior to getting married. Think about it...even Heather Mills (Sir Paul's Ex) took the money and signed the confidentiality agreement...if that hideous hag did it(when she could've scored considerable amount of $ from a book about being married 2 a Beatle), so should Elin. IMHO.

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

If she wants the money, she'll eventually sign the clause. Won't affect child support, I don't think - just her alimony. He has to support the kids no matter what....

 

She's always been so private, it amazes me she wouldn't just take the money and go to her house in Sweden and be with her family & friends.....

[kappy22 1]

If her sister lives in Florida and Elin and the kids have a life in Florida, then I can understand her wanting to remain there. And as much as Tiger is a creep, I think you have to let kids have as much access to their dad as you can during a divorce. I don't see Elin as the type of parent who will air her dirty laundry publicly or to her kids. I agree with Maxie that she's simply making him stew in his own juices for awhile.

 

It's blatantly obvious that Tiger's right back to his old self. And he's pissed because she's not playing the role of forgiving wife so that his image can get back to where it once was. Let him stew.

[ericamarie 1]

I think she's just playing him. She's always been quiet. I hope she stays that way.

 

My parents are not together. Dad was in politics. I have read and heard plenty about him and his carrying ons. I know why my parents are not together. My mom has never once said anything bad about him. If she came out and wrote a book about my dad and all their problems I would be very hurt. Even though the kids will find out eventually, having their mom air it out is a whole other ball game!