HBO Doc Reveals She Didn’t Want To Date Him – Hollywood Life

Tiger Woods’ popularity virtually cost him his partnership with his fiancée, according to HBO’s brand-new ‘Tiger’ docuseries regarding the golf tale’s life.

Tiger Woods “didn’t make a great impression” on his fiancée Elin Nordegren, among her pals declared in the very first component of HBO’s brand-new docuseries regarding the champ golf player. In reality, the celebrity’s popularity was such an exit ramp for the Swede that she originally “turned him down” when he initially asked out.

Writer Sandra Sobieraj Westfall showed up in the very first episode of the two-part Tiger docudrama and also made use of her relationship with the golf player’s currently ex-wife to discuss why the reluctant previous baby-sitter lastly accepted date the super star.

“Elin told me that he didn’t make a great impression on her at first,” Westfall stated of the 41-year-old blonde in the docudrama, which premiered on Jan. 10. “She had her opinions about celebrities and they were not high. And she’s very shy so the idea of joining that world was not appealing to her. And when he asked her out, I think she turned him down at first.”

However, Elin – that helped among Tiger’s pro-golfing associates when they satisfied in the Noughties – lastly accepted date the California indigenous. “[Then] she gradually was convinced that she should give him a chance and so they did go out,” Westfall stated.

Eventually she found out to deal with the focus, Elin’s good friend stated in the doc. “She said the hardest part about that was adjusting to the spotlight that followed him. But Tiger was very sweetly protective of Elin. She said it felt special,” Westfall stated. “Ironically the spotlight that first repelled her suddenly bonded them; sort of us against the world. It was just the two of them and she believed it was everything.” Elin and also Tiger ultimately wed in 2004 on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

The very first component of HBO’s docuseries graphes the 45-year-old tale’s life from the really early days when he wowed regional media with his playing golf abilities as a kid hardly out of baby diapers, to his marital relationship to Elin and also the fatality of his daddy, Earl Woods. It was Earl, that passed away in 2006 at the age of 74, that identified his child’s ability and also guided the child from a gifted child to a playing golf megastar.

Friends that recognized the Woods household in the very early days stated in the docudrama the complete degree of Tiger’s moms and dads’ commitment to his profession. Despite old information video recommending that he was consumed with the video game as a youngster, Tiger’s preschool instructor Maureen Decker stated the reluctant little child in fact wished to take pleasure in various other tasks.

“One day Tiger opened up and he asked me to ask his dad if he could play some other sports besides just golfing and I told him that I would…” Ms. Decker stated of the future pro that, to day, has 82 PGA Tour triumphes under his belt. “I did say that I thought it would be nice if Tiger could play other sports but Mr. Woods said he had to concentrate on his golf.”

This decision that Tiger continue to be uber concentrated on his playing golf profession proceeded well right into his university years, according to Dina Parr, his very first sweetheart. She began dating him when they were both in secondary school, the blonde stated in the docudrama, which included old pictures of the previous pair snuggling and also partying with each other. But Dina confessed she didn’t assume Tiger’s mama (Kultida Woods) and also papa accepted of the love.

“Earl and Tida, they had this image of who he was supposed to be and I think that they were worried about me because I certainly didn’t fit into that,” she stated. “I felt that their plans were creating this robot.”

Dina declared that Tiger quickly damaged up with her, removing their partnership unexpectedly, by sending her a gnomic letter, claiming that he really felt “used and manipulated” by her which he “never” wished to “talk to or hear from” her once more. “It was awful. We’d been in this three-year relationship…” his ex-spouse stated, after gripping and also reviewing the materials of the transcribed letter out loud on display. “I replay that day in my head over and over again.”

By the moment Tiger was wed to Elin, it wasn’t his intense commitment to golf that damaged them up, however his numerous events. They separated in 2010 after 6 years of marital relationship and also 2 kids – Sam and also Charlie (currently 13 and also 11 specifically) – with each other.

That fifty percent of Tiger’s life (when his spotless picture increased in fires) is conserved for the 2nd and also last component of HBO’s docudrama. In the meanwhile, the golf player’s ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel meant what is to find by claiming in the last shot of Part 1: “OK. So what do you want me to talk about?” She splashes everything in the 2nd and also last component of Tiger, which broadcasts on HBO on Sunday Jan. 17 at 9pm ET and also is likewise offered on HBO Max.