Tiger Woods' alleged girlfriend's friend was paid $25,000 by the National Enquirer

Ashley Samson -- a friend of Tiger Woods' alleged mistress
Rachel Uchitel -- tells the New York Daily News that she
was paid $25,000 by the National Enquirer to expose the
alleged Tiger Woods adulterous affair

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

A friend of one of Tiger Woods' many alleged women/ mistresses/ non-wives / girlfriends -- Ashley Samson, friend of Rachel Uchitel -- has gone on record with the New York Daily News, telling the news outlet that she was indeed paid $25,000 by the National Enquirer for information about Tiger Woods' adulterous affairs.

In light of the way Rachel Uchitel "trashed" Samson's name in the wake of the National Enquirer story -- calling her drug-addicted and the like -- "[Ashley Samson] told the Daily News that she should have taken the $200,000 she says the Woods camp offered her to keep quiet."

And yet, Samson tells the news website that she never was a drug user -- and that she assumed Rachel Uchitel was some sort of "trust fund baby" when she allegedly invited Ashley to Spain on a trip that Ashley says turned out to be some sort of prostitution hook up with four men matched to the four girls on the trip, with Uchitel serving as a sort of madam, Ashley claims.

"Oh, I've got a sense of (the party girl culture) now. It's sad actually. It's very sad. They don't have any real friends. It's a sad existence I think," Samson told the Daily News. "I actually feel sorry for them." 

Hell

Meanwhile, Tiger Woods may feel trapped in his own self-imposed hell as the world wonders if it is Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren wearing wedding ring or her sister that was captured by photographers on the ski slopes recently.

First photos of Tiger Woods out and about after his exile from the public eye will no doubt sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.