Tiger Woods Has An Eyebrow-Raising Pattern With His Girlfriends
Signing an NDA probably isn't the first thing you think of when you start dating someone new, but if you're thinking of dating Tiger Woods, you're probably going to need to.
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00:00Signing an NDA probably isn't the first thing you think of when you start dating someone
00:05new. But if you're thinking of dating Tiger Woods, you're probably going to need to.
00:10Woods has had quite the love life in the public eye, with details of his romances hitting
00:14the headlines over many years. The star was famously married to Ellen Nordegren, the mother
00:18of their children, from 2004 until 2010, during which time he admitted to having a number
00:23of affairs.
00:24I offer my profound apology for these multiple transgressions."
00:28Multiple?
00:31After a media firestorm, the star publicly apologized for his actions during a 2010 press
00:36conference.
00:37I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to play by different rules."
00:42Nordegren has since moved on from their romance, and so has Woods. He's even been involved
00:47in a few public relationships in the wake of their grueling divorce. And it looks like
00:51signing nondisclosure agreements is becoming a bit of a running theme with the ladies
00:55in his life.
00:56Tiger Woods has been accused of making his girlfriend sign NDAs multiple times, with
01:00one of the most famous cases dating back to 2009, when Rachel Uchitel claimed she signed
01:05a 30-page document given to her by the Woods team. The document reportedly stopped her
01:10from being able to speak out about the golfer, who she had a relationship with during his
01:14marriage to Ellen Nordegren. Uchitel told The New York Times in 2021,
01:18His lawyers are saying,
01:19"'We want all your text messages, and here's the price,' and you're like, screw you, and
01:23you move into deal-maker mode, and all of a sudden it's the rest of your life."
01:27It was reported that Uchitel was given $5 million and another $1 million each year for
01:31three years for signing the NDA. But it sounds like Uchitel was tired of being silenced.
01:37She was interviewed, saying, quote,
01:38"'I've had it with NDAs.'"
01:40One year later, the Daily Mail reported that Emma Rotherham allegedly received hundreds
01:44of thousands of dollars for signing a confidentiality agreement with Woods. It was alleged that
01:48she was paid to sign in exchange for being quiet about what purportedly went on between
01:53them while Woods was still married to Nordegren. In 2018, TMZ Sports claimed Tiger Woods' former
01:58girlfriend, Kristen Smith, also signed an NDA as a result of her relationship with him.
02:03It isn't known if she ever actually put her signature on the line, but it was reported
02:07that she felt the NDA was not enforceable.
02:09More recently, Woods' ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, headed to court over the NDA she signed
02:14in 2017 as a result of her relationship with Woods. She filed court documents asking that
02:18it not be enforced due to the Speak Out Act.
02:21I honestly don't feel comfortable with it."
02:24Herman alleged she had supposedly made an oral agreement with Woods that would allow
02:28her to stay at their home for a set amount of time in the case of a split, but claimed
02:31that was not honored. Lawyers for Woods said,
02:34"...Mr. Woods never negotiated an oral tenancy agreement with Ms. Herman, nor was there ever
02:39a written tenancy agreement between Mr. Woods or the trust."
02:42Though NDAs are all about privacy, Erica Herman's didn't exactly stay that way. In March 2023,
02:48Tiger Woods' lawyers shared a redacted copy of the paperwork after the former couple continued
02:53to fight it out in court.
02:54The document highlighted the stipulation that any disputes between Herman and Woods had
02:58to be handled in a private manner. As reported by TMZ Sports, the golfer's team countered,
03:03stating,
03:04"...Ms. Herman's position is utterly meritless. It is a transparent abuse of the judicial process
03:09that undermines the purpose of the federal statute and those whom the statute seeks to
03:13protect."
03:14A source told Us Weekly that after five years together, Woods and Herman split because,
03:18"...Erica thought Tiger was never at home, and Tiger thought Erica was spending too much
03:22and living too lavish of a lifestyle."
03:24It appears neither have spoken publicly about their split, and if the NDAs are upheld, no
03:29one will.
03:30I've never experienced, you know, that amount of noise.