Tiger Woods is the subject of a new plastic surgery rumor after the now notorious Thanksgiving day confrontation with his wife over sexy texts. But is it true?
Just when you thought Tiger-gate was over, a new email rumor is circulating the Internet, purporting to have the real scoop on what went down at chez Woods on that fateful Thanksgiving day. Although parts of the text have been stretched, some of the email is surprisingly accurate.
The email says that on that night, Tiger’s wife, Elin, confronted him over sexy texts from Rachel Uchitel after Woods came from poker night. When he refused to admit anything, the email says, Elin clocked Woods with a 9-iron, bruising his nose and loosening two upper teeth, and that’s when he fled in his car and crashed. After the crash, Woods’ agent then allegedly met the couple at the hospital where he recommended a plastic surgeon in Phoenix who could “make it look like nothing had happened.” The email says Woods only returned to Orlando a few days ago, which explains why he hasn’t been seen at his mansion there. The email also claims the couple is now undergoing marathon marriage counseling in order to work things out and remain married.
David Mikkelson of Snopes.com says there are several holes in the story. Because of patient privacy laws, no doctor would comment on the nature of Woods’ injuries, but if they were revealed, Mikkelson says, “It would have been pretty obvious from the nature of the injuries whether he sustained them in a car crash or prior to that.” Wood’s agent calls the email “another patently false rumor.”
However, E! has reported that private jet timeshare NetJets operated a flight from Phoenix into Tampa on December 19th. Tampa is about an hour from Woods’ Orlando home, and Woods is a member of the service. NetJets could not say if he was on the flight, however.
So will Tiger be sporting a new nose when he comes back into public view? It’s hard to say, concludes urban legend expert Mikkelson. “Things that are anonymous can be very reliable at times,” he tells E!Online, but says “The email was probably cobbled together from a lot of different sources, and someone wrote it into a long narrative, probably with a lot of things that are true and stuff that is not true or exaggerated.”
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