Tiger Woods’ ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel shares somber remembrance of fiancé killed in 9/11 attacks: ’23 years ago I lost the love of my life’
Tiger Woods’ ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel shares somber remembrance of fiancé killed in 9/11 attacks: ’23 years ago I lost the love of my life’
’23 years ago, I lost the love of my life, Andy O’Grady,’ Uchitel began the caption of her Instagram post, which featured an emotional video featuring footage from shortly after the terrorist attack.
Uchitel was only 26 in the video, which showed her holding missing posters featuring her fallen fiancé smiling face, which contrasted with her shellshocked demeanor.
‘This is my fiancé. I’d planned my whole future out with this person,’ she said while trying to hold back t
Rachel Uchitel, 49, commemorated the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and remembered her late fiancé Andy O’Grady, who was killed when 2 World Trade Center collapsed; pictured in 2014
’23 years ago, I lost the love of my life, Andy O’Grady,’ Uchitel began the caption of her Instagram post, which featured an emotional video featuring footage from shortly after the terrorist attack
‘If I don’t find him, I have to start all over again. It’s taken my whole life to find him,’ she continued as tears began to fall. ‘And I don’t know what I will do without him.’
After a pause, she looked down at her fliers and continued: ‘Please, please help me find him.’
Then Uchitel included the famous New York Post cover that featured a sobbing photo of her taken at the same time as she clutched her missing fliers.
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But she concluded the video by putting Andy front and center. He showed off a winning smiling in sweet photos taken years before his death, including cute pictures of Rachel and him together.
The video, which was soundtracked with heartwrenching piano music, concluded with simple text featuring his name and life span: ‘May 9th 1969 – Sept. 11th 2001.’
O’Grady, a New Jersey native, was a competitive swimmer for UCLA from 1988 to 1991, and he ascended to become co-captain of the swim team in his final year, before staying on an extra year as a grad assistant.
After college, he headed back to the East Coast and worked as managing director at the investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners, which had an office on the 104th floor of 2 World Trade Center.
Andy and Rachel had only gotten engaged on August 5, 2001, and they had planned to tie the knot on May 4, 2002, according to the Los Angeles Times.
O’Grady had only been at his office for 45 minutes when the first plane hit 1 World Trade Center.
Uchitel’s sobbing face was later used for a famous New York Post cover. She concluded her video with smiling images of Andy
His building would be hit 17 minutes later, but it would be the first to collapse.
In her Instagram caption, Uchitel recalled having to watch the footage of the towers being hit as part of her job with Bloomberg News.
After his death, Uchitel recalled calling him shortly after the first plane hit the World Trade Center, and he told her that no one was being evacuated from the building at the time.
Things were more dire when she called him later that morning.
‘Rachel, it’s really chaotic here,’ she recalled him saying. ‘You don’t understand. I just saw somebody jump out the window.’
In her Instagram caption, she wrote: ‘I remember watching his building fall and not being able to catch my breath. I remember the whole news room floor got silent. They had all just watched me watch Andy die.’
Although she and others stayed