What I Wanted to Love: Rachel Uchitel breaks her silence on her relationship with Tiger Woods.

What I Wanted to Love: Rachel Uchitel breaks her silence on her relationship with Tiger Woods.

 

What I Wanted to Love: Rachel Uchitel breaks her silence on her relationship with Tiger Woods.

What I Wanted to Love: Rachel Uchitel breaks her silence on her relationship with Tiger Woods.

Rachel Uchitel never intended to be the catalyst for one of the most dramatic personal and professional downfalls in recent memory. She never tried to trap her husband or seduce him into a tasteless kiss. But the text messages he sent to Tiger Woods sparked public shaming of a man who had a reputation as one of the cleanest and most family-oriented sportsmen of his generation.
It’s been almost a year since Elin ran out of her Florida home in the middle of the night after discovering texts from Rachel, the ex-spirited Tiger’s angry wife. He crashed his car into a fire hydrant and a neighbor’s tree and was rushed to hospital, unconscious and bleeding. The golf superstar’s image makers have been busy limiting publicity amid rumors of an extramarital affair. New life: Rachel Uchitel, who is vacationing on the beaches of Malibu, has now applied for a private detective license.

But the scandal spiraled out of control when a motley crew of 15 women, including porn stars, strippers, waitresses and prostitutes, revealed they had slept with Tiger.
The unsavory revelations destroyed the sports star’s marriage, ruined his career and forever ruined his image as a quiet, caring family man. The global icon at the center of a multi-billion dollar business empire has been revealed as a blemished man with feet of clay. But while Tiger tried to sort out the ruins of his life over the last 12 months, Rachel also had to face her demons. Because of her career as a nightclub owner – a really well-paid worker looking after VIP clients such as Sir Philip Green and Premier League footballers – she is vilified as a whore, or at best a whore. A gold-digging adulterer.
But Rachel’s friends say Rachel is an intelligent middle-class girl who genuinely believes her eight-month relationship with Woods was a serious affair with her “soulmate” and has never said a word about it in public. Tragically, his once honorable life was derailed on one of the darkest days in modern American history, they added.
On September 9, 2001, self-taught Rachel, who worked as a TV producer for Bloomberg News, married 32-year-old investment banker Andrew O’Grady. He died in the Twin Towers atrocities. She briefly became the face of America’s grief after her photo with her bride appeared on the front page of the New York Post. Since then, she has tried to fill the void in her life with several relationships with the wrong men. There was only one failed romance with Tiger Woods.
But Rachel, 35, broke her silence last night. She told the Mail on Sunday from the beachfront balcony of her Malibu rental home. “People call me all kinds of names, but they don’t know me. I am different from other women and I never dreamed that I would be involved in such a scandal. “If things had been different and 9/11 had not happened, my life would have taken a different direction. I’d be fat and happy living in a big house on Long Island with lots of kids. “I’m telling my story now so people know what kind of woman I am and the truth about me. If they still hate me, so be it. But I didn’t want to hurt anyone.”

Personally, Rachel is small. Like many women in Los Angeles, she has a razor-thin body with fake breasts, plump lips and a two-hour gym workout a day. (She is very concerned about her weight and constantly asks me if I look fat.) She bought a beautiful floral dress especially for our photoshoot, but added: ‘I’m not one to die for on a regular basis. But I want to show myself in a different light. I’ve been called the Red Woman, but I’m so much more than that.”

Rachel smokes nervously as she tells her life story for the first time. He recently filmed the new season of Celebrity Rehab (airing in the UK early next year), which explores his addiction to and love of prescription drugs. “People don’t really understand love addiction, but I think a lot of women can relate to it,” she explains.
“Instead of filling their minds with alcohol or drugs, love addicts become emotionally involved in a series of abusive relationships. Ever since I lost Andy, I’ve always been looking for the perfect person. I wanted a man who would marry me and give me the house and children I wanted. I threw myself into a relationship that was never going to happen.

I ask her if she regrets sleeping with a married man. “Yes,” she said. “I will never do that again.”

Clearly, the tragedy that befell her on 9/11 was only part of Rachel’s story. In fact, his family history shows both the good and the dark sides of the great American dream. His grandparents were poor Ukrainian Jews who came to the United States with only the clothes on their backs. Since then, the Uchitel family has made millions and hung out with presidents and movie stars. However, Rachel’s father, Bob Uchitel, died of cocaine addiction at the age of 44. He proudly says, “My grandfather Maurice came to this country with nothing and made a fortune. He worked in the cloth industry, producing shoulder pads and uniform linings. “He signed a contract with the US military and became rich,” he said.

Maurice was married to Broadway singer Patricia Pollack, and the couple ranked alongside President Kennedy, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. In 1966, he acquired the legendary El Morocco nightclub in Manhattan and the Eden Roc hotel in Miami. “It was about as cool as it gets.” said his nephew proudly. “He was a big personality.”

Rachel’s father, Bob, was a businessman who moved to Alaska “because he wanted to prove himself on the last frontier.” Bob opened the first cable television station in Alaska with his wife, Susan Bishop. “My father was ahead of his time. He went to Alaska with a thousand dollars in his pocket and made millions. “My mother was a TV producer and host,” he said.

When she was five, the couple divorced and Susan returned to her native New York with Rachel. “It was difficult. I didn’t see my father as much as I wanted. And then his addiction started.”

Bob Uchitel was found dead of a nosebleed in September 1990.
“Police found only one body, but ask any of Bob Uchitel’s friends and they’ll tell you two Bobs died that day,” the Anchorage Daily News reported. Old Bob was a strong man, an Alaskan millionaire with vision and common sense. New Bob died alone, his body bruised and bloody, his brain boiling with cocaine.”

Rachel said, her eyes misty. “It was difficult for me to lose my father. I was 15 when he died. It left a hole in my life.”

But he followed the traditional path. He graduated from a progressive private boarding school in California, earned a degree in psychology from the University of New Hampshire, and began his television career at Bloomberg News. Twenty-two years ago, she met Andy O’Gray, a handsome New York investment banker, on a blind date. A few months later, in the summer of 2001, he proposed to her. “We fell madly in love and I was the happiest girl in the world,” she says. “I was working as an editor at Bloomberg News, and Andy and I were talking about our future and our children. I found in Andy a stable male figure that I never had before. . . And then 9/11 happened.”

Rachel frowned. “Andy and I have just returned from a holiday in Greece. I went to work that morning. I didn’t kiss my lipstick goodbye because I didn’t want to ruin it. That bothers me.”

Rachel appeared on Bloomberg News when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. “Andy called and said, ‘Rachel, this is important. I saw someone jump from a window in another building.” He worked at Sandler O’Neill on the 104th floor of the South Tower. He hung up and I saw the second plane hit his building which was 30 stories below where I knew. I called him again, but there was silence. nothing.’

A grieving Rachel joined hundreds of other family members outside Bellevue Hospital. “I ran when I heard his name was on the list of survivors. “They said he wasn’t there and the news cameras caught me when I left.”

She said the next year was a blur. “I was sitting in the closet trying on her clothes and trying to smell her. Doctors prescribed sleeping pills. That’s when my addiction to Ambien began (Rachel introduced Tiger to the sleeping pills she had taken before she crashed her car). Andy’s credit card was returned in the mail burned. Every day they would find a piece of his life, a burned driver’s license or something, and I would have to open the envelope. “I’ve been through hell. I was shattered. A year ago, most of his friends left after the 9/11 attacks. People we know are married and starting families. “I felt like I was robbed.”

With the sudden and untimely loss of her father and fiancé, it’s no wonder that Rachel’s career spirals out of control and finding her own place becomes her primary motive.
She entered into a brief and disastrous marriage with Wall Street trader Stephen Ehrencrantz, one of Andy’s best friends. “We both cried.” me