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🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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At 2:30AM on Thanksgiving night 2009, Tiger Woods, one of the most famous athletes in the world, drove his car into a tree outside his neighbor’s house. This bizarre accident set off a chain of events that exposed Tiger’s secret affairs to the world and wound up wrecking more than his Escalade: It wrecked his marriage, and almost totaled his career.
Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams from Even the Rich join Misha to tee off on the salacious scandals of Tiger Woods.
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0:32.3 | It's 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving night, 2009. You're comfortably in bed deep in a food coma, |
0:40.8 | sleeping off all that stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pie. |
0:45.3 | It's another quiet evening in your gated neighborhood on the water. |
0:51.5 | The light from a pair of headlights briefly shines through your bedroom window, and you hear an engine revving. |
0:58.5 | Then you hear a crash. |
1:02.1 | You jump out of bed, and though it's tough to run when you're this full, you go racing out of your house into the night. |
1:09.5 | In front of your driveway, you find a black escalade smashed into a tree. |
1:14.6 | The car's not just a little dinged up, the hood is crumpled and the bumper is wrecked. |
1:20.6 | You start to move closer to see if you can help, but now things are getting even weirder. |
1:35.0 | A blonde woman comes running out of the darkness, up to the car, and in her hand is a golf club? |
1:40.4 | The woman takes the club and starts smashing the car's back windshield. |
1:46.4 | The driver of the car is laying on the concrete next to the vehicle. He's unconscious. |
1:53.4 | There's blood on his face. Oh, and he's also not wearing any shoes. It's your neighbor. |
2:05.1 | And your neighbor isn't just anyone. It's legendary golfer Tiger Woods. Huh, that may partially explain the golf club. You run back inside to call 911 yelling, Tiger is down! Tiger is down! The sounds of ambulance sirens get louder and louder, |
2:13.0 | and the flashing lights from the top of a police cruiser get closer and closer. |
2:18.5 | Hmm. |
2:19.4 | Maybe now is a good time to see if Tiger wants to help out with the neighborhood block party? |
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