December 11 -- A woman claiming she carried on an 18-month affair with Tiger Woods told NBC-TV’s “Today” show that all she got from the relationship was “a broken heart.”
Jamie Jungers said she appeared on the network program, without compensation, to clear up the “99 percent” of falsehoods the media are spreading about her, including recent reports that she worked as an “escort” for a Hollywood madam.
Jungers also claimed that Woods never gave her a penny during the time they were together, that her “boyfriend/girlfriend” relationship with the golf great was no secret, and that she broke off the affair when Woods refused to help her out financially.
No money. Woods paid her “nothing,” Jungers told "Today"’s Meredith Vieira live on Friday’s show. “I didn’t even get a birthday card. I got nothing out of this relationship but a broken heart.”
Jungers said she ended the relationship after Woods would not give her any money while she went through a rough financial patch. “I asked him, ‘Can you please help me out?’ and he said, ‘I can’t,’ and I just, I said, ‘I don’t understand,’ like I thought maybe he was joking,” Jungers said.
“That’s when I told him, I said, ‘I mean that shows to me how much I mean to you and I can’t do this anymore,’” Jungers said.
It looks like it was all about the Benjamins for Jungers. Gold digger much?
Public affair. In what had to be the most suspect part of the Jungers’ interview, the 26-year-old "Trashy" lingerie model said the famously private Woods made no attempt to keep their affair a secret.
Jungers alleged she spent time in Woods’ home while Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, was away, and that high-profile superstar Woods picked Jungers up from the airport himself.
In addition, Jungers said, she and Woods would date in public. “We went places together, people were taking our pictures in nightclubs, um, we went together to restaurants.”
There was apparently no effort to keep Jungers’ visits to Woods’ hotel rooms under wraps, either, although she appeared to mix up the venues of their meetings.
“When I went to the mansion to see him at the MGM, I would have to check in under my name and say that I was there to see him,” Jungers said. “He would come down to...get me.”
No blame. As for Woods’ wife, Jungers said she thought about the marriage but it hardly hindered her relationship with the golfer. “I’m not raised to do something like I did...,” Jungers said. “It’s something I did years ago and I’m not saying it’s right. But trust me, it crossed my mind several times.”
Jungers refused to take responsibility for any heartache her relationship may have caused Nordegren. “I wouldn’t want someone to do it to me but I don’t want to take full blame for this...,” she said. “It’s just something that happened between him and I [sic] and I didn’t think everybody needed to know.”
Other “highlights” of Jungers’ TV tell-all included the following:
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The chase. Woods pursued her, Jungers said. He asked a VIP host at a Las Vegas nightclub to introduce them, they slept together that night, and he called her the next day to set up another rendezvous.
- The phone number. Woods allegedly gave Jungers his phone number and “told me to save it in his phone as a different name.”
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The madam. Jungers claimed she had never heard the name Michelle Braun, a Hollywood madam, who has claimed that Jungers was paid for sex. “That’s all funny,” Jungers said. “I’ve never even heard the woman’s name, never in my life. I have never been an escort, never will be an escort.”
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The end. Jungers said she broke off the affair in 2006.
With the alleged sordid details of Woods’ private life continuing to grab headlines, Golf Digest’s January cover story generates jokes. Read about the ironies involved with Woods sharing a magazine cover with Barack Obama.
You can watch and listen to the entire "Today" show interview here:
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