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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Part two of the <keyword id="7849400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO-Max">HBO Max</keyword> documentary "Tiger," released on January 17, reveals the lengths golfer <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword> went to in order to hide his 2009 affair with <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword> from his then-wife <keyword id="79564" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Elin-Nordegren">Elin Nordegren</keyword>.</li><li>Woods and Uchitel scripted out a 30-minute phone call with Nordegren in order to convince her they were just friends, but they were only able to convince Nordegren for a few days before she caught on to the affair. </li><li>The story became one of the major scandals of the year, with Woods losing multiple lucrative sponsorship deals and permanently tarnishing his all-American image. </li></ul>In part two of the HBO Max documentary, "Tiger," Rachel Uchitel revealed new information about the infamous affair that permanently damaged golfer Tiger Woods' image as an all-American athlete. Woods was outed as a serial womanizer in 2009 after his wife Elin Nordegren caught wind of an affair between her husband and nightclub manager Rachel Uchitel. Uchitel shared that she and Woods had arranged a phone conversation with Nordegren to convince her that rumors about the affair were untrue. Woods, at the time, was concerned that several media outlets were close to breaking the story. Nordegren initially believed the pair."We had gotten away completely unscathed in what could have been a complete nightmare," Uchitel says in the documentary - but two days later, their plan fell apart.On Thanksgiving 2009, Uchitel received a text from Woods that said: "When am I going to see you?" Woods then called her, and Uchitel responded with, "Hey babe, I thought you went to sleep."She then realized it was actually Nordegren calling. "I knew it was you," Nordegren said. The events that followed became national headlines, revealing Uchitel as one of a dozen mistresses involved with Woods.The couple divorced for an estimated $100 million, one of the highest <keyword id="6355064" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Celebrity">celebrity</keyword> splits of all time. Uchitel revealed in the documentary that Woods called to tell her that his lawyers would arrange a confidentiality settlement and to "get as much [money] as you can," in what Uchitel believed to be a gesture of his love for her. In the aftermath of the divorce and cheating scandal, Woods checked into rehab for sex addiction and played a few rocky years of professional golf. He rose to the top in another brief winning streak until injuries set him back again and a 2017 DUI arrest in Palm Beach County solidified his downward spiral. While Woods still enjoyed a revival of his career and was able to somewhat move on from the scandal, Uchitel said she hadn't experienced the same public treatment. <div type="image" title="Rachel Uchitel" height="717" width="957" msid="80343922" hostid="261"></div>"It was like I was the only one that was responsible for Tiger's actions. My name was getting dragged through the mud," she said. Since her involvement with Woods, Uchitel revealed she's struggled to find jobs aside from reality TV show gigs. She told <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/tiger-woods-doc-part-2-rachel-uchitel-details-affair-calls-with-elin/amp/">Us Weekly</a> she chose to participate in the documentary to share what happened from her perspective. "I needed to speak for me. It's one way to get the shackles off me," she said. "It's one way for me to get rid of the shame and for me to feel like I get to speak regardless of what people think." Woods did not participate in the documentary, and his agent Mark Steinberg released a statement to <a href="https://www.golfdigest.com/story/tiger-woods-mark-steinberg-hbo-documentary">Golf Digest</a> earlier this month in which he referred to "Tiger" as "just another unauthorized and salacious outsider attempt to paint an incomplete portrait of one of the greatest athletes of all-time."

Golfer Tiger Woods and his mistress Rachel Uchitel devised a scripted call to cover up their affair, new documentary reveals

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>" director <keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword> told Insider that the biggest surprise in making the movie about the golfing legend was how loyal people are to <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword> — even the ones he has scorned.</li><li>That includes his former mistress, <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword>, and his fired caddie Steve Williams, who both took months to decide to participate in the documentary.</li><li>"Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," he told Insider.</li><li>"Tiger" is now available on <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> Max.</li></ul>Over the two-plus years working on the <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-woods-spends-his-money-2017-5">Tiger Woods</a> two-part documentary, "Tiger," directors Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman spent most of their time trying to gain the trust of Woods' inner circle.Though they succeeded in landing fantastic interviews with those who knew the golfing legend best - for others, including his ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel, his <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-caddy-pull-over-highway-practice-swing-2021-1">former caddie Steve Williams,</a> and his first love, Dina Parr - it wasn't that easy.Still, when the duo did eventually land the essential interviews, which show a more intimate side of the golfer, Hamachek said he was shocked by what they told him or moreso what they didn't tell him.Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">HBO's explosive Tiger Woods documentary features interviews from people who know the golfing legend best including his former mistress- Here's how the directors got them to talk</a>"Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">he told Insider</a>.Hamachek said he met with Uchitel before production started and eventually she was the first interview they filmed for the movie. Still, it took months for her to finally agree despite the fact that her affair with Woods, while he was married to Elin Nordegren, caused her life <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-documentary-got-rachel-uchitel-interview-2021-1">to be "a living hell"</a> for the last 10 years.<div type="image" title="tiger hbo" height="675" width="900" msid="80321852" hostid="261"></div>Getting Williams also took months to land though he and Woods had a falling out. As we see in part two of the documentary, Williams is fired after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-woods-injured-navy-seal-2012-3">Woods gets injured</a> and Williams decides to work for another PGA Tour player, Adam Scott. However, in the movie he still says he "admires" Woods.Perhaps the hardest interview to land was Parr. In part one of the documentary, Woods sends her a handwritten breakup letter to her out-of-the blue.Hamachek said it was so difficult to convince Parr to appear in the documentary that he and a producer had to wait outside her home one day to finally talk with her about why she should be involved.Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-documentary-got-rachel-uchitel-interview-2021-1">The director of HBO's Tiger Woods doc revealed that the golfer's former mistress Rachel Uchitel appeared in the movie because she felt the media had 'turned her into a caricature'</a>The director told Insider that he's happy all three participated in his project as they all reveal fascinating insights on Woods.And although he doesn't believe any of them contacted Woods to get his approval to be in the movie, Hamachek did find it interesting how much they still care for the golfing legend."That was the most surprising thing," Hamachek said, "the loyalty and caring they still have to this day for him despite breakups or being fired.""Tiger" is available now on HBO Max.

The director of Tiger Woods' documentary is shocked by how loyal his former mistress and caddie still are to the golfing legend

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword>, the codirector of the <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> documentary, "<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>," told Insider how he was able to get <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword>' former mistress, <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword>, in the movie.</li><li>He said that conversations happened months before production began, leading to a close to eight-hour interview with her for the documentary. It was the first interview they conducted for the movie.</li><li>"Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story; that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature," Uchitel said.</li><li>"I wanted to tell my story on HBO because I wanted people to see what really happened," Uchitel told "Extra" before part one of "Tiger" aired on Sunday.</li><li>"I was not a mistress, and I was in a real relationship," she added, "and I want people to leave me alone about it."</li></ul>At the conclusion of part one of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">Tiger Woods HBO documentary, "Tiger,"</a> we watch as Woods wins the 2006 Open Championship, marking the first major win for Woods after the death of his father Earl.Emotion overtakes Woods as he cries in the arms of his caddie Steve Williams and then his wife, Elin Nordegren. It has all the makings of a storybook ending for an athlete, who became everything his father wanted him to be: an <a href="https://www.insider.com/hbo-tiger-woods-documentary-banquet-footage-2021-1">inspiration that transcends sports</a>. At least in the public eye.But as Woods and Nordegren embrace, the picture cuts to a shot with a grey background and a woman entering the frame sitting down in a chair.It's Rachel Uchitel, Woods' former mistress."OK, so what do you want me to talk about?" she asks the camera as part one of "Tiger" ends.It sets the stage for an explosive part two of the documentary in which all of Woods' demons are detailed, destroying his then pristine public image.To land Uchitel's first-ever in-depth interview took a lot of conversations between her and the filmmakers before production began, "Tiger" codirector Matthew Hamachek told Insider, noting that it all came down to trust."We met with her for lunch, and Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story; that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature," said Hamachek, who codirected the movie with Matthew Heineman ("Cartel Land").<div type="image" title="Rachel Uchitel" height="1000" width="1333" msid="80207084" hostid="261"></div>Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009, the world was shocked when news broke that Woods was in a car accident just outside his Florida mansion. The world was even more shocked when they realized the accident was caused after Nordegren had chased the golfer out of their home after she discovered his infidelity.Soon after, a slew of women went public about their affairs with Woods over the years, but Uchitel, a New York City night club manager, stood out as the tabloids reported that she was the one who broke up Woods' marriage."What she really wanted was to make sure she had a platform to tell her side," Hamachek said about the discussions he had with Uchitel..A couple of months of back-and-forth discussions led to her doing a close to eight-hour interview for "Tiger," the first one done for the documentary."It was a marathon," Hamachek said. "We talked about everything. She really does tell her entire story of meeting Tiger up through what happened the night that their relationship came to an end."<div type="image" title="tiger woods elin 2006" height="1334" width="1778" msid="80207086" hostid="261"></div>In an interview on <a href="https://extratv.com/2021/01/07/rachel-uchitel-s-emotional-interview-about-the-aftermath-of-the-tiger-woods-scandal/">"Extra"</a> before part one of the documentary aired Sunday, Uchitel said the last decade had been "a living hell" for her."I wanted to tell my story on HBO because I wanted people to see what really happened," she said. "I was not a mistress, and I was in a real relationship, and I want people to leave me alone about it.""I made a bad decision. And I regret it, and I'm embarrassed about it and," Uchitel continued, "my apology is to two people, not the world, two people."The majority of part two of "Tiger" is dedicated to Uchitel and Woods' relationship, as well as other things that led to his fall from grace, including injuries, his divorce from Nordegren, and a dependency to drugs and alcohol that led to a 2017 arrest for driving under the influence.Hamachek said he felt it was important to have Uchitel in the movie because it gives an added layer to Woods' story."What I really wanted to do was paint a portrait of his life from the people who knew him best and hopefully to bring a bit of empathy to his story," he said. "That's what the people who talked to us helped us do."The codirector added that there were plenty of sordid details that he left on the cutting room floor since his intention from the start was to paint a complete yet complex picture of Woods, not simply focus on his transgressions. "There were tons of salacious details we could have gotten into," Hamachek continued, "but we wanted to get to the heart of who this guy is and why all this happened to him."Part one of "Tiger" is available now on HBO Max, while part two airs on HBO and HBO Max on January 17.

The director of HBO's Tiger Woods doc revealed that the golfer's former mistress Rachel Uchitel appeared in the movie because she felt the media had 'turned her into a caricature'

<table class="image-container full" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"></div>Frazer Harrison/Getty Images</td></tr></table> <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword>, the first and most famous of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-woods-mistresses-2011-8">Tiger Woods' many alleged mistresses</a>, seems to support his new relationship with champion skier Lindsey Vonn.
In her first tweet since the news broke, she said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Everyone deserves a second chance. No exceptions to that rule, in my humble opinion.
— Rachel Uchitel (@RachelUchitel) <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelUchitel/status/313823577541591040">March 19, 2013</a></blockquote>

Given the context, you've got to think she's talking about Tiger and Lindsey here. Even if she isn't, Tiger would still be covered under her general forgive-and-forget philosophy.
Uchitel was at the very center of the firestorm when Tiger's mistress scandal broke in 2009. The National Enquirer <a href="http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/world-exclusive-woman-center-tiger-woods-cheating-scandal-exposed">first reported that the two were having an affair</a>, which was later confirmed when the truth came pouring out after a late-night car crash in November 2009.
She later appeared on Celebrity Rehab before turning things around in late 2011. She's now married with a kid and her name has disappeared from the tabloids, so she seems to have weathered the storm well.
This is Tiger's first public relationship since the scandal broke, and he has Rachel Uchitel's blessing, for what it's worth.

Tiger Woods' Original Mistress Responds To The Lindsey Vonn News: Everyone Deserves A Second Chance

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tiger Woods's <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-responds-to-ex-girlfriend-erica-herman-breakup-lawsuit-2023-3">ex-girlfriend Erica Herman</a> claims he evicted and abused her, but she has an NDA.</li><li>Woods's desire for privacy has come up in tabloids, court filings, even the name of his yacht.</li></ul>When security guard John Davis slipped on some stairs at a Florida mansion in 2010 and hurt his knee, he filed a lawsuit. The defendant, Christopher Hubman, wasn't a name most people would recognize.But to people who knew Hubman's role as the trusted lieutenant of golf superstar Tiger Woods, the real target of the lawsuit was obvious: Woods himself, whose net worth at the time had just surpassed half a billion dollars. Even though Davis was injured at Woods's mansion, Hubman handled the suit as an officer of the trust controlling the estate, and everyone in the case took pains to play down the connection. At one point in a deposition, Davis referred to a witness as "Tiger's personal assistant," before catching himself — "Oh," he said. "She's the client's personal assistant."Davis wasn't the first person asked to keep Tiger Woods's name out of his mouth, and according to a $30 million lawsuit filed earlier this month by <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-girlfriend-erica-herman-2022-4">Woods's ex-girlfriend Erica Herman</a>, he wasn't the last.Herman is suing to nullify a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2017 while dating Woods, with her legal filings citing laws that allow people with allegations of sexual abuse to invalidate such contracts. Her lawyers are arguing that the agreement needs to be scrapped to proceed with another suit against Woods, related to her claim that Woods used a ruse to wrongfully evict her from his house. As it stands, the agreement is so broad, her lawyers said in a filing, that she is "unsure what other information about her own life she may discuss, or with whom." The battle over <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-ex-argues-nda-is-invalid-citing-sexual-harassment-assault-laws-2023-3">Herman's NDA</a> is a window into Woods's longtime obsession with privacy. In both public statements and personal dealings, he has repeatedly sought to limit and control what people know about the real life of the world's most famous golfer — leveraging legal barriers, financial trusts and his immense wealth to keep things quiet. Even his former personal chef has an NDA. As public scrutiny and tabloid speculation intensify around Woods once again, the carefully constructed walls around his private life face arguably their biggest test since the infidelity scandal that imploded his public image and professional career over a decade ago.<h2>Tiger Woods doubles down on privacy</h2>Woods built his brand in the late 1990s and early 2000s on the carefully crafted image of a clean-living athlete, armed with a thousand-watt smile and the ability to turn golf tournaments into must-see TV. His winnings on tour and prolific sponsorship deals netted him hundreds of millions of dollars, with his spotless public persona making him ideal for marketers. But Woods's reputation came crashing down in 2009, after The National Enquirer and Us Weekly reported that he'd had affairs with two women during his marriage to Elin Nordegren. The reports sparked a tabloid frenzy. Dozens more women came forward claiming to have had affairs with the golfer, and Woods ultimately sought treatment for sex addiction as his marriage to Nordegren crumbled.The media fracas appeared to prompt him to clamp down on control of his private life, already well-guarded behind trusts and the threat of litigation. Woods reportedly made at least two of his former girlfriends sign NDAs. Woods's desire for privacy has seemingly informed much of the way he conducts his life. He previously lived in a <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-ex-wife-elin-nordegren-selling-florida-mansion-2018-3">Florida enclave</a> so exclusive that Time magazine reported <a href="https://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1943684,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even police officers</a> had to ask permission to enter. At one Georgia golf club, Woods requested a locker near the back stairwell so he could escape attention, The Atlanta Constitution reported in 2000. He lambasted the owner of a South African game reserve for publicizing his marriage proposal to Nordegren. <div type="image" title="tiger woods yacht privacy" height="672" width="895" msid="98637816" hostid="261"></div>His attempts at a private life have also repeatedly run up against the realities of fame, and at times prompted litigation. Woods named his $20 million superyacht "Privacy," but even before the boat's completion in 2004 he sued the builder for using his name and photos in promotional material without authorization. Woods has also excoriated the press for digging into his private life."Personal sins should not require press releases," he said during his divorce from Nordegren. "Problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions." <h2>Woods has a history of NDAs</h2>Woods has managed to stage an improbable comeback in recent years both on and off the golf course. Although he lost some sponsorship deals after the infidelity scandal, his personal wealth ultimately swelled to an <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-net-worth-wife">estimated net worth</a> of over $1 billion last year, according to Forbes. Herman's steady presence at Woods's side in recent years has also helped rehabilitate his image, as Woods overcame injuries to rise once again to the top of the golf world and regain a measure of control over his public relations. But a new law that invalidates certain nondisclosure agreements where a signer claims sexual harassment or assault may help penetrate Woods's thick legal armor. Herman is asking that her nondisclosure agreement be invalidated on these grounds.Woods's lawyers filed a response on Monday to the suit that disputed the allegations and stated Herman "is a not a victim of sexual assault or abuse sought to be protected by Congress when enacting the statute."Attorneys for Woods and Herman did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.Herman's three-page NDA, filed by Woods's lawyers, is mostly blacked out. The only section that's not redacted says that any disputes about it have to be resolved privately.<div type="image" title="erica herman and tiger woods" height="2776" width="3701" msid="98637817" hostid="261"></div>Other women who have been in relationships with Woods also signed NDAs. <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-failed-to-hide-affair-from-wife-2021-1">Rachel Uchitel</a>, who was dating Woods while he was married to Nordegren, struck an $8 million deal to keep quiet.But the sweeping nondisclosure agreement she signed went far beyond the details of her affair, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/style/rachel-uchitel-tiger-woods-nda.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2021. The NDA barred Uchitel from discussing "directly or indirectly, verbally or otherwise" Woods's "lifestyle, proclivities, customs, private conduct, fitness, habits, sexual matters, familial matters" and other topics with more or less anyone: "family members, relatives, acquaintances, friends, associates, co-workers, journalists." The agreement even prohibited her from acknowledging she had signed an NDA."This is someone who everyone wants to be a hero," Uchitel told The New York Times of Woods, "and anyone who crosses that narrative will be shamed."Woods's team, though, ultimately only paid Uchitel $5 million of the $8 million they'd initially agreed upon, alleging that she had violated the terms of the NDA. In 2020, Uchitel filed for bankruptcy. In 2018, celebrity news website TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2018/04/02/tiger-woods-kristin-smith-breakup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Kristin Smith, who was reportedly in a relationship with Woods around the same time he began dating Herman, was also threatened with legal action related to an NDA.Woods's bubble has been pierced on occasion. In 2012, his former coach Hank Haney wrote a tell-all book. A <a href="http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15278522/how-tiger-woods-life-unraveled-years-father-earl-woods-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2016 ESPN profile</a> described how Woods, a longtime military obsessive, spent days doing training exercises with Navy SEALs. During one firearms course, Woods ended up shooting a target of a person with a camera intended to simulate a civilian bystander, then cracked a joke about how much he hated photographers. Often, though, Team Tiger locks things down. In October 2021, exhibits and transcripts were sealed in an unsuccessful case brought by the family of an employee at Tiger Woods's restaurant who died in a drunk driving incident. One of the depositions was of Herman, who was then a manager at the restaurant. A judge ultimately ruled that Woods and the restaurant could not be held responsible for the employee's death.Earlier this week, when Insider called Matthew Byrne, Woods's former personal chef, he said he couldn't talk. "I'm on an NDA," he said. "I have nothing to say."<h2>Celebrities turn to NDAs in private life</h2>Woods isn't the only celebrity to make heavy use of NDAs. Buzzfeed <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hallielieberman/celebrity-gossip-sex-scandal-ndas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2021 that actors, athletes and other celebrities – women and men – required sexual partners to agree to say nothing about their encounters. One unnamed actor reportedly tried to make a woman sign an NDA after they had drunk alcohol and done cocaine together. Charlie Sheen reportedly made sexual partners sign NDAs that provided for $100,000 in damages if they were violated. (Sheen's representatives told Buzzfeed that "Charlie doesn't require NDAs.") Donald Trump famously paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair that he has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-admit-affair-accidentally-2023-2">denied</a> took place. Revelations of the use of NDAs by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, actor Bill Cosby, and Fox News host Roger Ailes to force women they abused to keep quiet formed the context for lawmaker's passage last year of the Speak Out Act, a law cited by Herman's lawyers.Woods has cast his intense desire for privacy as an outgrowth of his natural shyness. At the height of "Tigermania" in the early 2000s, Woods could barely step outside without causing chaos. By then, Woods had been an object of public fascination nearly his entire life: His father, Earl Woods, began taking Woods on television to show off his golf prowess when he was just two years old.<div type="image" title="Tiger Woods house" height="450" width="600" msid="98637818" hostid="261"></div>Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2001, after winning his second Masters tournament at age 26, Woods explained that off the golf course, he loathed public attention. Of his then-ascendant fame, "I honestly don't feel comfortable with it," he said. But Woods also has a financial stake in protecting his image. When Woods's cheating on his wife came to light, his reputation took a hit. He lost lucrative sponsorships from Gatorade and AT&amp;T, among others. Among sportscasters there was widespread speculation that the scandal damaged his mental game and knocked him off leaderboards for years.But Woods recovered financially as he returned to golf. Despite a succession of injuries that impaired his performance, his wealth only grew as he signed new sponsorship deals with companies including Rolex, Monster Energy, and Bridgestone Golf. Even a 2017 DUI, which Woods said was related to treatment for back pain, seemed to not tarnish his return to the public eye. Herman has been an essential part of Woods's rehabilitated image. She's appeared at his side on the golf course and at the White House when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. Tabloids wrote glowing profiles of the couple's relationship; as recently as last year, OK <a href="https://okmagazine.com/p/tiger-woods-erica-herman-spark-engagement-rumors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speculated </a>that Woods and Herman would soon marry.The two met when Herman was in college in the mid-2000s and working at the Blue Martini Lounge in Palm Beach Gardens, where Woods was a regular, Page Six reported.Before she became a manager at Woods's upscale Florida steakhouse, The Woods Jupiter, Herman owned an Orlando restaurant, Aura Bar, with two business partners. The restaurant was short-lived, and its online presence is sparse. But it appears to have attempted to woo the golf crowd: Far and away the most photos on Aura's Facebook page come from a party held at the 16th hole of the 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational – where staff were watching Tiger Woods.When Woods's image imploded in 2009, he used nondisclosure agreements to stanch the gush of details about his personal life into the media. But since then, public tolerance for stars' sweeping use of NDAs to prevent reports of their misdeeds from emerging has waned. Now, Woods is finding that the tool he once relied on to protect himself from scrutiny is having the opposite effect of sparking questions about what he may have to hide.

A superyacht named "Privacy" and an NDA for his personal chef: Tiger Woods longtime obsession with keeping his life private

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>" co-director <keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword> told Insider how he made the two-part <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> documentary on <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword>.</li><li>Hamachek revealed the two-year process to make the movie, which required a lot of time gaining the trust of Woods' inner circle to get them to open up.</li><li>The documentary also features the first-ever interview with Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel, who details the phone call she made to Woods' then-wife, Elin Nordegren.</li><li>The golfer's first true love, Dina Parr, also revealed how he was once closed-off from the world as a twenty-something.</li><li>Women who partied with him in Las Vegas with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley also appear.</li><li>Part 1 of "Tiger" airs on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET. Part 2 airs on January 17.</li></ul>Like most <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> superstars, Tiger Woods is insulated by not only a team of agents, managers, and publicists, but also close friends who are so loyal to the golfing great that they would never dare speak publicly about his private life.That's why the new two-part HBO documentary "Tiger" is so revealing because directors Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman were able to do just that: get people from Woods' inner circle to talk about him. Many did so for the first time ever.Because of the revelations from the people who were standing alongside the golfer, "Tiger" is a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs following Woods' life. This includes the caddie alongside Woods for his glory years, Steve Williams, and Rachel Uchitel, the woman whose face was splashed on tabloids when it was revealed that she was Woods' mistress.Hamachek, an editor and producer of documentaries like "Cartel Land" and "Amanda Knox," said it had been an obsession of his to do a documentary on Woods that delved not just into his amazing career, but also his troubled life off the course that included a sex addiction and drug dependency.It became a reality for Hamachek more than two years ago when he teamed up with Heineman to co-direct. Oscar-winning filmmaker, Alex Gibney, signed on to produce."So much of Tiger's story is misunderstood and lacks nuance and that's one of the things that Matt Heineman and I set out to correct," Hamachek told Insider. "Everybody has an opinion of Tiger that he's either a hero or villain, and what I think we both wanted to do was make people's understanding of him more complex."<div type="image" title="Tiger Woods Steve Williams" height="3264" width="4896" msid="80154380" hostid="261"></div><h2>How the directors gaining the trust of Woods' inner circle</h2>Hamachek said the key was gaining the trust of those close to Woods."Our mantra making this film was finding people who intimately knew Tiger Woods," Hamachek said. "Anyone can make a doc where you get experts and people who never met him and just have opinions, but it's different when you have people who spent time with him."The starting point was attaching the authors of "Tiger Woods," Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict, as executive producers. Their 2018 bestselling biography on Woods delved deep into his youth as a golf phenom thanks to the tutelage of his father, Earl. It also chronicled how Woods' womanizing ways when he became the greatest golfer in the world led to him destroying his image."Their book was the inspiration for the telling of this story," Hamachek said.With the authors' participation, the doc landed people like Dina Parr, Woods' first true love who revealed how he was once closed-off from the world as a twenty-something.Hamachek recalled having to wait outside the home of Parr, Woods' first love, to finally get her to agree to be interviewed on camera.Some of the women who partied with Woods when he became famous and took trips with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley to Las Vegas also appear in the documentary.But Hamachek and Heineman uncovered more on their own. Like getting former pro golfer Joe Grohman to reveal how as a kid Woods witnessed his father having affairs with women; and Woods' former caddie Steve Williams (who was fired in 2011 after he began caddying for Adam Scott while Woods was injured) sharing what it was like to be alongside Woods for many of his most memorable PGA Tour wins.However, the biggest get by Hamachek and Heineman was Rachel Uchitel and it took months to secure.<div type="image" title="Rachel Uchitel" height="1000" width="1500" msid="80154382" hostid="261"></div><h2>Woods' one-time mistress speaks for the first time ever in the documentary</h2>In her first-ever interview, Uchitel gives jaw-dropping details about her affair with Woods, including the phone call she had with Woods' then-wife, Elin Nordegren that led to the now infamous 2009 car accident Woods had outside his Florida mansion over Thanksgiving weekend."Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story," Hamachek said, "that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature."Soon after that accident, a slew of women went public with their affairs with Woods, but Uchitel, a New York City night club manager, was locked in by the tabloids as the one who broke up his marriage with Nordegren. Woods and Nordegren would go onto divorce in 2010.Hamachek said Uchitel was the first interview they filmed and it lasted between seven to eight hours long."She really did tell her entire story of meeting Tiger, up to what happened [on] the night that their relationship came to an end," he said.And though there are a lot of moments that show Woods at his lowest points - even the police footage of Woods' 2017 arrest in Jupiter, Florida for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol - Hamachek said they did have a line they wouldn't go beyond."There were tons of salacious details we could have gotten into, but we wanted to get to the heart of who this guy is and why all this happened to him," he said.<div type="image" title="Tiger Woods" height="1051" width="1500" msid="80154383" hostid="261"></div><h2>Even those who have been scorned by Woods are still loyal to him</h2>So it begs the question: Why would all these people want to talk for the movie? Did they have an axe to grind?Hamachek actually said it was the opposite."Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," said Hamachek, who noted that Woods was approached to be in the doc but declined.Parr, Williams, and Uchitel somehow they still have an allegiance to Woods even though their relationships didn't end well."That was the most surprising thing," Hamachek said. "The loyalty and caring they still have to this day for him despite breakups or being fired."Hamachek believes what finally got everyone to agree to be in the movie was because he and Heineman weren't trying to do a hit piece on Woods. They wanted to weave a story that makes viewers better understand Woods, regardless if you are a fan of him or not."From the minute he was born, he was thrust into this stage and everybody around him - his father, Nike, the public - threw all these expectations onto him," Hamachek said. "The pressure that comes with that was remarkable. I have a great deal of sympathy for him."Part 1 of "Tiger" airs on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET. Part 2 airs on January 17.

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