Tiger Woods On His Sex Scandal – One Year Later

Can you believe it’s almost been a whole year since the Tiger Woods empire fell?

It seems like it was just yesterday that Tiger Woods crashed his car and triggered the events that ultimately destroyed his marriage and nearly ended his career. Of course, one could argue that Tiger’s actions of stepping out on his wife for years is what ruined his life, but the crash is what brought everything out into the open.

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As perfect celebrity PR timing would have it, Tiger Woods just so happens to have joined Twitter in the last few days, and he’s speaking out in the form of a Newsweek essay. I’m guessing it’s an effort to make some sort of amends.

“Last November, everything I thought I knew about myself changed abruptly, and what others perceived about me shifted, too,” Woods writes.

…Woods’ essay continues: “I had been conducting my personal life in an artificial way–as if detached from the values my upbringing had taught, and that I should have embraced.”

“The physical pain from that car accident has long healed. But the pain in my soul is more complex and unsettling; it has been far more difficult to ease–and to understand. But this much is obvious now: my life was out of balance, and my priorities were out of order. I made terrible choices and repeated mistakes. I hurt the people whom I loved the most. And even beyond accepting the consequences and responsibility, there is the ongoing struggle to learn from my failings.”

…Expressing a new appreciation for fatherhood, the single dad to two adds: “Slowly, I’m regaining the balance that I’d lost. My healing process is far from complete, but I am beginning to appreciate things I had overlooked before. I’m learning that some victories can mean smiles, not trophies, and that life’s most ordinary events can bring joy. Giving my son, Charlie, a bath, for example, beats chipping another bucket of balls. Making mac and cheese for him and his sister, Sam, is better than dining in any restaurant. Sharing a laugh watching cartoons or reading a book beats channel-surfing alone. Some nights now, it’s just me and the kids, an experience that’s both trying and rewarding. Probably like the experience a lot of families have every evening around the world.”

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I hope he’s not expecting me to feel sorry for him. Because I don’t. Not even one single teeny tiny bit.

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