HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jaimee Grubbs is speaking out about her alleged affair with Tiger Woods, issuing an apology to the PGA star's wife, Elin Nordegren.
"I couldn't describe how remorseful that I am to have hurt her family and her emotionally," Grubbs, a former contestant on the VH1 series Tool Academy, told Extra.
"If it wasn't me, it was going to be other girls," she added. "I did care about him — I didn't do it for superficial reasons. I didn't do it to purposely hurt her."
Grubbs, a 24-year-old Los Angeles cocktail waitress, claims that she had a 31-month affair with Woods, beginning in April 2007. According to her, they had at least 20 sexual encounters, with the first taking place just days before the birth of Woods and Nordegren's first child. Grubbs maintains that she never fell in love with the world's No. 1 golfer.
"Love is obviously a very strong word for me to even use," she said. "I wouldn't necessarily say that I didn't love him. But I couldn't... I did never say that I did love him. I didn't let myself get that far."
As for the fallout from the affair scandal, Grubbs said she hopes Woods and Nordegren can work things out. And if by some chance Woods is a single man again, she isn't likely to rekindle their relationship, at least physically.
"I can't say that I would ever go back to him," she said. "I would definitely have a relationship with him whether it was friends or just to have him in my life. But as far as going back to him emotionally like I was — I don't know if I can put myself through that again."
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