What I Knew and When I Knew It
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While the likes of People and the Inquirer were comically chasing false leads back in December, I had already deduced — through information from more reliable sources — that Tiger Woods had checked into the Pine Grove rehabilitation facility in Hattiesburg, Miss., for treatment with noted sex addiction therapist Dr. Patrick Carnes.
Nearly two weeks passed before that story became public, as I privately gloated over holding such valuable knowledge.
Well, maybe “gloat” isn’t the right word. A more accurate verb would be “ruminate.” I have dozens of journalist friends who would have killed to know what I knew, friends who could have advanced their careers by breaking the story. But I held back for two reasons.
- I did not want to unintentionally thrust myself or my sources into the story, and
- I believed that Tiger Woods was entitled to privately chase his demons for as long as he could hold off the media.
Look, I don’t disagree that Tiger brought all this scrutiny upon himself. He’s the one who cheated on his wife and screwed countless porn star wanna-be’s from coast to coast. He’s the one who allowed a traffic incident to go rogue by giving the world the silent treatment as though hoping the unfortunate episode would disappear into the haze of so many bad dreams. He’s the one who for years allowed his squeaky-clean lie of a life to be perpetuated by handlers, friends and the media.
But does that make Tiger evil? I don’t think so. It just makes him human.
And Tiger is not just any human. He’s a walking dichotomy — a gifted golfer from infancy who never really had a childhood, yet never stopped being a child until the day he hit that tree.
If anyone needs help, Tiger does. And he deserves the opportunity to seek that help as privately as possible.
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The most amusing thing to me about the whole nonsense is the communal willingness of the media and most of those talking about the case to accept the idea of Tiger having a problem he could “fix” in some way by going to “rehab.” Sex addiction, we’re told he had.
Really? So, if you’re a guy who has top-tier ‘tang throwing itself at you every second, and you’re enough of an asshole to turn your back on your wife to indulge in that, you can say you have an addiction? Bullshit! See the South Park episode.
I agree with Chris that sex addiction is indeed a very convenient excuse to give when you are caught screwing around, but as much as I want to dismiss it, I’m also very cognizant that people use weakness of character to say that any kind of addiction is a phony disease. Just stop drinking! Just don’t do any more drugs. It’s will power. Having seen such addiction up close, I can tell you for sure that it’s a disease. Where do we draw the line, I don’t know.