Erica Herman and Tiger Woods arrive on the Presidents Cup Golf gala DAVID CROSLING/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Tiger Woods and Erica Herman might have quietly referred to as it quits, however their cut up is seemingly about to get messy.
TMZ obtained court docket paperwork on Wednesday, March 8, filed by Herman in an try and nullify the non-disclosure settlement that Woods had her signal after they began relationship in 2017. She cited the Converse Out Act — which “prohibits the judicial enforceability of a nondisclosure clause or nondisparagement clause agreed to earlier than a dispute arises involving sexual assault or sexual harassment in violation of federal, tribal, or state legislation,” per Congress.
Woods and Herman have but to publicly touch upon their obvious breakup, however she was noticeably lacking at his latest golf outings. One yr in the past, she was current to look at the golfer return to the Masters after he suffered extreme leg accidents in a single-car collision in February 2021.
“It’s miraculous. It shouldn’t be taking place,” she advised Golf.com on the event in April 2022. “I imply, nothing ever surprises me about him. However he’d simply labored so onerous to be right here, that was the one factor I knew: as soon as he obtained right here, he wasn’t going to go house.”
Sources advised Us Weekly on the time of the incident that Herman was a assist system for Woods.
“Erica dropped the whole lot to be with Tiger the second she heard what occurred,” the insider stated. “She’s been by his bedside, holding his hand and telling him the whole lot’s going to be OK. He’s a champ and he’s obtained this. She’s been so compassionate and supportive — all his family and friends have. He couldn’t have requested for extra in that regard.”
Woods was beforehand married to Elin Nordegren, with whom he shares a daughter, Sam, 15, and son, Charlie, 14. In March 2022, Herman and his two youngsters have been available when the athlete was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame.
“I do know that golf is a person sport. We do issues on our personal [for] lots for hours on finish, however in my case, I didn’t get right here alone,” he stated in his speech. “I had unbelievable mother and father, mentors, mates, who allowed me and supported me within the hardest instances, the darkest of instances, and celebrated the very best of instances.”
Woods and Nordegren’s divorce was finalized in 2010 after he was caught dishonest on her with a number of ladies. Amid the controversy, he sought remedy for intercourse habit.
“In hindsight, it’s not how I might change 2009 and the way it all happened. It might be having a extra open, sincere relationship with my ex-wife,” Woods advised Time in 2016. “When it comes right down to it, proper right down to it, it’s simply having a extra open, sincere relationship with my ex-wife after we have been married. Our frustrations would have come out if we had talked about it and been open and sincere with one another. Which we at the moment are, and it’s completely unbelievable.”
In December 2020, Nordegren and Herman even placed on a united entrance to assist Woods and Charlie on the PNC Match.
“You by no means know the way a mum or dad separation goes to have an effect on the youngsters and each Tiger and Elin have made it such an enormous precedence to guard the pursuits of their youngsters and their privateness,” Golf Channel analyst and Woods’ good friend Notah Begay III stated in the course of the broadcast. “Tiger talked about it yesterday in his post-round feedback, ensuring he takes the brunt of the media requests right here, attempting to guarantee that each Sam and Charlie, from each Elin and Tiger, have a pleasant high quality childhood like anyone else on the market.”
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Us Weekly has reached out to Woods’ rep for remark concerning Herman’s authorized submitting.
