Elin Nordegren to stay with Tiger Woods for the sake of their childrenDecember 11, 2009 .The wife of Tiger Woods will stick with her cheating husband for the sake of their two young children.
Friends of Elin Nordegren, 29, said she was devastated and heartbroken by the extent of his alleged infidelities but plans to stay married.
The couple, who wed in 2004, have a daughter Sam, 2, and son Charlie, 10 months.
"She is a child of divorce and that's not something she's likely going to want to do to Sam and Charlie," an unnamed friend told US magazine People. "She really believes in the importance of parents staying together."
The friend said Tiger Woods, 33, had finally come clean and told Elin, a former nanny, the full extent of his alleged womanising. They are believed to be in negotiations to alter their prenuptial agreement, which could allow her to walk away with $US55 million ($A60 million) if she remains married for another two years.
So far, 11 women have claimed affairs with the golfer and other revelations, including a fling with a British TV presenter, are expected.
The friend said Elin heard whispers about Woods's active sex life before they married - but he promised to reform.
"Elin had talked to other golfers and their wives about Tiger's wild parties. When she asked Tiger about it, he said he would stop doing it. And she believed him. But he never did," one friend said.
Friends said they had been having problems for two years and have had public arguments in Stockholm, where they own an apartment.
Their marital woes exploded into headlines two weeks ago when Elin, whose Swedish parents divorced when she was six, chased Woods from their Orlando home and allegedly attacked his car with a golf club. He crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree.
Since then, the scandal has erupted and placed the billionaire golfer's lucrative sponsorship deals in doubt - he gets an estimated 90 per cent of his income from endorsements.
The 15 TV advertisements now featuring him have vanished.
Public relations guru Howard Rubenstein sees little hope, saying: "He is beyond PR redemption."
Racy texts have now emerged, appearing to show Woods flirting with 24-year-old cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs.
Grubbs, alleged mistress number three was the first to publicly apologise to Elin.
"I couldn't describe how remorseful that I am to have hurt her family," the cocktail waitress told US showbiz news program Extra.
Then there is the alleged email exchange between alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel and Woods.
"I know it's brutal on you that you can't be with me all the time," the golfer texted her, said In Touch magazine. "I finally found someone I connect with."
Porn star Holly Sampson, 26, added her own touch with a video clip, recorded in May, boasting how she and Woods met at a party and became bedmates. "He picked me to go into the room," she said.
Ashley Samson, the source for the National Enquirer's story on Uchitel, said Woods's management offered her $US200,000 ($A218,000) to shut up. "I turned them down flat, saying I would not lie for Tiger because the truth is the truth," she said.
Woods has laid low since the storm erupted but it is now claimed the reason is because Elin broke his tooth in their row before the crash.
Star magazine in the US reported that Elin threw a mobile phone at him after she caught him texting Uchitel.
