Tiger Woods’ ex-lover Rachel Uchitel is defending herself after her boyfriend’s wife said the new couple met online in November and that he went after his family a month later.
After an exclusive video from DailyMail.com showed Uchitel and married lawyer Ed Batts, 47, kissing at Denver airport on December 13, his six-year-old wife, Robyn, revealed that Ed had dropped her and their three children five days before Christmas and moved from California to Florida to stay with Uchitel.
Robyn told DailyMail.com in early January that Ed’s actions were ‘a major betrayal. The children are devastated. He canceled his bank account and left town. I don’t know what we’re going to do. ‘
Now Uchitel, 45, is against Robyn’s claims.
Rachel Uchitel (photo) responded to the claims of boyfriend Ed Batts’ wife that Ed’s departure was a surprise and a ‘big betrayal’
Ed and Uchitel are photographed kissing at Denver International Airport on December 13
Robyn (right) said she only realized that Ed (left) was leaving her on December 19th
Uchitel told Page Six: ‘Robyn is publicly humiliating her ex-husband, from whom she has been separated for a long time, using me as a target.
“It is sad that the media has once again taken a story out of context and is trying to paint me as a lover, when that is not the case.”
The former nightclub hostess made headlines in 2009 after it was revealed that Uchitel had an affair with Woods, which ended his marriage to his six-year-old wife, Elin Nordegren.
Uchitel is expected to appear in the next HBO documentary, Tiger, where she says she will show the audience ‘how I have been defamed in the past decade’.
Actor David Boreanaz admitted in 2010 that he had an affair with Uchitel while his wife was pregnant, after his spicy text messages surfaced.
In his exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Robyn, 59, said he started an affair with Uchitel in late November after meeting her online and left less than a month later – leaving her heart broken.
Ed kept his plan to keep it a secret – dispatching his Porsche to Florida days before his departure, with Robyn claiming he told her he was at the dealership to be repaired.
Uchitel (photo) said that Ed was Robyn’s “estranged husband” and said they were separated
Uchitel and Ed were photographed entering and leaving each other’s homes in Florida. Uchitel is pictured here in Palm Beach, taking his dog for a walk. Ed lives across the street from her
Ed is pictured here in Palm Beach, walking Uchitel’s dog. Ed’s wife Robyn said he left his family in California five days before Christmas and moved to Florida
Uchitel is pictured here with her daughter, while walking through Palm Beach, Florida
Ed is seen here in Palm Beach, where he now lives in a rented three-bedroom house
The lawsuits seen by DailyMail.com show that Batts filed for divorce on December 17.
She only realized that he was leaving her on December 19, when he boarded an overnight flight to Florida and reportedly closed the family’s bank account – leaving her without access to family funds.
Ed now lives in a rented three-bedroom house across the street from Uchitel’s apartment block, although the two spend most of their time together and have been photographed repeatedly by DailyMail.com while enjoying their new life.
Batts was photographed walking Uchitel’s dog and spending time with his eight-year-old daughter, Wyatt, and also getting to know the area with a visit to a local CVS pharmacy. The new couple was photographed several times in and out of each other’s houses.
Robyn said of the ‘great betrayal’ that the children – who were from a previous relationship she had – ‘did not want gifts and did not want friends coming to support us – they only wanted their father for Christmas. ‘
Robyn said that Ed’s departure came out of nowhere, so I’m still in shock. I’m still in shock. He’s over there spending a lot with Rachel.
Robyn recently became a widow when she met Ed in 2012. At the time, living in Colorado, she had three young children and was taken by the now 47-year-old.
Less than a year later, Ed asked her to move in with him in San Diego.
The couple later bought a five-bedroom Spanish-style property for $ 5.5 million, where they have lived since the 2014 wedding.
Uchitel (photo left in 2007 and right in 2011) made headlines in 2009 after it was revealed that she was a lover of golfer Tiger Woods
Uchitel’s affair with Tiger Woods (right) contributed to the end of his marriage to Elin Nordegren (left). Woods and Nordegren are portrayed in 2006
Uchitel will appear in the HBO documentary, Tiger, where she talks about her affair with Woods. Woods and Nordegren are portrayed in 2009, the year Uchitel had an affair with him
According to Robyn, he was also willing to be a father to his children, now aged 20, 15 and 14, who barely knew their biological father due to his premature death from cancer.
She says she had no idea that something was wrong with her marriage until she realized that Ed was getting cold and indifferent on Thanksgiving.
The mother of three said, ‘I realized that he was treating us badly. Angry. There was no time for us. On Thanksgiving Day, I realized that he couldn’t wait to get up from the table.
‘Then, on December 5th, we all went to buy a Christmas tree together and spent two days making the decorations. He didn’t seem very interested in that.
Robyn believed that it was at this time that he met Uchitel.
Robyn said that Uchitel started talking to Ed on the phone regularly from Dec. 5 – part of which she overheard.
He said that Uchitel was nothing more than a college friend and nothing to worry about, but on December 10 Ed left for a weekend away.
The corporate lawyer, who works for the Gibson and Dunn law firm in Palo Alto, told his wife and children that he was planning a quiet weekend alone in the Midwest, Robyn said.
But he had other plans: instead, he traveled to Jackson Hole for a weekend with Uchitel – meeting with her at the Denver airport before traveling together.
A hotel receipt seen by DailyMail.com shows how Ed spent $ 1,234 on dinner for Uchitel during his weekend at the five-star Amangani resort, as well as buying a Tampax and a hairbrush for her.
After returning home to San Diego, Ed continued to speak with Uchitel up to 10 times a day, according to Robyn.
On December 18, he dispatched his car to Florida. The next day, after finally telling his family about his plans, Ed went on an overnight flight.
Robyn said: ‘He talked to my children – my daughter was very upset. She is 14 years old. Then he came out of the red eye.
“He said he needed some time to think and he wasn’t sure he wanted to stay married. It was kind of a 50-50 thing for him.
‘He said Rachel was just a friend and she had nothing to do with anything. He wouldn’t see her and she was just a friend. After he left, I found out that he was with Rachel. ‘
Devastated Robyn said this is the end of her marriage to Ed.
About Uchitel, she was scathing, saying: ‘I just have no words for someone like that. People like that don’t change. I don’t want to go down to her level.
‘I just don’t believe that women should mess with married men and she is constantly doing that.’
Both Batts and Uchitel denied that they were dating DailyMail.com. Batts also denied moving to Florida to be with Uchitel.
But on Sunday, Uchitel, who used to own a children’s boutique named after her daughter in New York City, was seen exiting Batts’ distinctive Porsche Cayenne SUV outside her home.
Uchitel will appear in the next HBO documentary, Tiger, which will air on January 10 and 17, where she discusses her case with the golfer.
‘There he was, on my bed, and it was my Tiger,’ she says in the trailer.
The 45-year-old added: ‘After all these things that spread about the scandal, I felt that at some point, I needed to remove the handcuffs of what it is to have no voice. […] I don’t think people really understand that. ‘