New Claims Emerge Over Tiger Woods’ Alleged Affair With Rachel Uchitel; Wife Reportedly Wants To Work On Relationship

Since she was named as an alleged mistress of Tiger Woods two weeks ago, Rachel Uchitel, who has denied the claim, has become a prime target for the paparazzi. And now, new details have emerged on her alleged first night with the golf star.

Star Magazine said they spoke to one of Uchitel’s closest friends, who claimed Uchitel and Woods’ first rendezvous was at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club on October 2, 2009, just a couple miles from his and wife Elin Nordegren’s home.

“I personally saw e-mail exchanges between Rachel and Tiger saying things like why [didn’t] he meet Rachel years before all this craziness went down,” Star Senior Editor Suzanne Rozdeba told Access Hollywood.

Star reported that when Woods arrived for their alleged rendezvous — in the Black Escalade he crashed nearly two months later — he was acting very paranoid.

“He did things like run around and shut the curtains,” Rozdeba said of Woods and Uchitel’s first alleged meeting. “He went through cabinets and Rachel asked, ‘What are you doing?’ Tiger said, ‘I’m just looking.’ It’s as if he was looking to see if he was being bugged in the situation.

“A source very close to Uchitel said they had sex nine times that night and in the middle of that, Tiger — who’s a complete machine when it comes to working out — got up, went to the gym at 5 in the morning, came back an hour later, woke Rachel up, they had more sex and then he went back to the home he shared with Elin,” Rozdeba added.

Star also reported that at one point, Woods’ wife called and confronted Uchitel about the alleged affair, but Uchitel was so convincing that nothing was going on, Nordegren thanked her for her time before getting off the phone.

But on November 27 at 1 AM, Nordegren allegedly called Uchitel again and yelled, “I know everything,” which the magazine reported led to the terrible fight and Woods’ eventual car crash.

Uchitel, who has denied an affair, also insists she’s not a whore, home wrecker or an escort and she has said she will survive this.

Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush spoke to Uchitel on Wednesday and she said she is bewildered by all these insiders who are coming forward to talk to the magazines. She told Bush that until she speaks out, nothing should be believed.

But while Uchitel is a paparazzi target, also of interest is Nordegren. Since Woods’ crash and the recent stories on his alleged mistresses, the only words that may have been heard publicly from his wife was Tuesday’s 911 call concerning her mom, Barbro Holmberg.

While Holmberg is OK following a short hospital stay and subsequent release on Tuesday, that is just one of the many series of traumas for Nordegren.

And now, a reported insider has shed light on the woman at the heart of these scandalous stories.

A friend reportedly told People magazine Nordegren is not a wallflower.

“Don’t let the pretty blonde thing fool you,” the friend claimed to the mag. “She is tough.”

In fact, the mysterious former model at the center of the scandal may not have been in the dark about her husband’s wild ways.

According to People’s Assistant Managing Editor JD Heyman, Nordegren knew about Woods’ ways even before she said yes to his marriage proposal.

“A lot of people told Elin what Tiger was like before they were married,” Heyman told Access. “He liked wild parties; he was a jetsetter. In fact, she confronted him about this before their marriage and sort of extracted a promise from him that he would change his ways.”

Although the cat is now out of the bag that Woods may not have changed his ways, Nordegren, a child of divorce, is reportedly determined to keep the marriage intact for the sake of the children. And don’t call Nordegren a shrinking violet. She has a reputation for being strong willed and People claimed the two have been fighting for two years.

“They have had fights in public. There’s been strain between them,” Heyman claimed. “This has been a stormy relationship with two very strong personalities.”

According to one tabloid, Nordegren tackled Woods in July over his alleged infidelity, reportedly resulting in $16,500 worth of damage to the house where they were staying for the British Open. That event was one of the worst performances of his career.