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Our Friend Ryan B at Waggle Room got to speak with the alleged mistress of Tiger Woods yesterday and here is that interview.
I spoke with Rachel Uchitel, the New York City woman identified by the National Enquirer in this week's issue as having carried on an affair with golfer Tiger Woods. Internet rumors have swirled since the initial release of the Enquirer to newsstands on Wednesday. A car accident involving only Woods outside of his Isleworth home on early Friday morning fueled further speculation that the accident and the Enquirer report were somehow connected.
Uchitel and I spoke on the phone on Friday evening to get her side of the story concerning the Enquirer article despite "not [being] supposed to talk much about this yet."
Uchitel vehemently and patently denied the allegations made in the Enquirer piece. In fact, Uchitel told Waggle Room that she spoke to the Enquirer for the piece - and her quotes were not published.
"My quotes were not even run [by the Enquirer]," Uchitel said. "Their story was not even close to the conversation that we had."
The New York City native is the Director of VIP services for Pink Elephant, a company that specializes in the nightclub scene in the Big Apple. Uchitel told me that the story runs contradictory to what her job entails.
"As part of my job, I have to keep many secrets about celebrities, so for [the Enquirer to report] me as going around telling people about something like this doesn't make sense." Uchitel added, "I'm not that big of an idiot."
"Other things have happened in my past that would prevent me from doing anything like this," Uchitel said - an allusion to prior celebrity rag reports that she has been linked to other celebrities and athletes. "I have traveled with men that are quietly more important than Tiger Woods and it is incredibly difficult to get to their hotel room.
"So, then, how is it possible that I walked up to the counter at [Woods'] hotel in Melbourne, asked for a room key, and went to the 35th floor?"
"And that I would be dumb enough to let the Enquirer into the elevator and see me push the button saying '35?'"
Uchitel said that the purported facts behind the Woods story "don't make common sense."
Uchitel said that she is frequently considered the subject of these kinds of rumors because she is often photographed with the celebrities that she is expected to cater to as part of her job.
The 34 year old was vehement when she said, "My job has nothing to do with my sexual past."
As for Ashley Samson - the woman that was the source for the Enquirer story, Uchitel told me that she is not her friend and what she told the Enquirer was "completely outlandish" insinuating that Samson may have spoken to the magazine in exchange for a sizable payout.
"These reporters should do some fact checking and research on who supplied this information [to the Enquirer]."
As a former television producer for Bloomberg, Uchitel was appalled at the lack of research into the facts of the story and how it was told.
Uchitel is concerned that these reports will ruin her place within her industry.
Further, Uchitel is hurt that she is being judged by strangers that don't know her and people "writing about stuff that they don't know."
She thanked me for the opportunity to tell her side of the story - something she feels has yet to have come out throughout this situation.
I spoke with Rachel Uchitel, the New York City woman identified by the National Enquirer in this week's issue as having carried on an affair with golfer Tiger Woods. Internet rumors have swirled since the initial release of the Enquirer to newsstands on Wednesday. A car accident involving only Woods outside of his Isleworth home on early Friday morning fueled further speculation that the accident and the Enquirer report were somehow connected.
Uchitel and I spoke on the phone on Friday evening to get her side of the story concerning the Enquirer article despite "not [being] supposed to talk much about this yet."
Uchitel vehemently and patently denied the allegations made in the Enquirer piece. In fact, Uchitel told Waggle Room that she spoke to the Enquirer for the piece - and her quotes were not published.
"My quotes were not even run [by the Enquirer]," Uchitel said. "Their story was not even close to the conversation that we had."
The New York City native is the Director of VIP services for Pink Elephant, a company that specializes in the nightclub scene in the Big Apple. Uchitel told me that the story runs contradictory to what her job entails.
"As part of my job, I have to keep many secrets about celebrities, so for [the Enquirer to report] me as going around telling people about something like this doesn't make sense." Uchitel added, "I'm not that big of an idiot."
"Other things have happened in my past that would prevent me from doing anything like this," Uchitel said - an allusion to prior celebrity rag reports that she has been linked to other celebrities and athletes. "I have traveled with men that are quietly more important than Tiger Woods and it is incredibly difficult to get to their hotel room.
"So, then, how is it possible that I walked up to the counter at [Woods'] hotel in Melbourne, asked for a room key, and went to the 35th floor?"
"And that I would be dumb enough to let the Enquirer into the elevator and see me push the button saying '35?'"
Uchitel said that the purported facts behind the Woods story "don't make common sense."
Uchitel said that she is frequently considered the subject of these kinds of rumors because she is often photographed with the celebrities that she is expected to cater to as part of her job.
The 34 year old was vehement when she said, "My job has nothing to do with my sexual past."
As for Ashley Samson - the woman that was the source for the Enquirer story, Uchitel told me that she is not her friend and what she told the Enquirer was "completely outlandish" insinuating that Samson may have spoken to the magazine in exchange for a sizable payout.
"These reporters should do some fact checking and research on who supplied this information [to the Enquirer]."
As a former television producer for Bloomberg, Uchitel was appalled at the lack of research into the facts of the story and how it was told.
Uchitel is concerned that these reports will ruin her place within her industry.
Further, Uchitel is hurt that she is being judged by strangers that don't know her and people "writing about stuff that they don't know."
She thanked me for the opportunity to tell her side of the story - something she feels has yet to have come out throughout this situation.
