Tiger Woods’ ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel is defending herself after her boyfriend’s wife said the new couple met online in November and that he was visiting his family a month later.
After the exclusive DailyMail.com video showed Uchitel and married attorney Ed Batts, 47, kissed at the Denver airport on Dec. 13, his six-year-old wife, Robyn, revealed that Ed had her and their three children five days before Christmas dumped and moved from California to Florida to be with Uchitel.
Robyn told DailyMail.com in early January that Ed’s actions were “such a huge betrayal.” The children are devastated. He canceled the bank account and left town. I don’t know what we’re going to do. ‘
Now Uchitel, 45, comes back against Robyn’s claims.
Rachel Uchitel (pictured) has rebelled against boyfriend Ed Batts’ wife’s claim that Ed’s departure came as a surprise and was a ‘massive betrayal’
Ed and Uchitel are pictured kissing at Denver International Airport on Dec. 13
Robyn (right) said she didn’t realize Ed (left) was leaving her until December 19
Uchitel told Page Six, “ Robyn publicly humiliates her estranged husband, from whom she has been divorced for a while, by using me as a target …
“It is sad that the media has taken another story out of context and are trying to portray me as a mistress, when that is not the case.”
The former nightclub hostess made headlines in 2009 after it was revealed that Uchitel had had an affair with Woods, ending his marriage to his wife of six years, Elin Nordegren.
Uchitel will appear in the upcoming HBO documentary, Tiger, where she says she will show the public ‘how I was vilified over the past decade’.
Actor David Boreanaz admitted in 2010 that he had an affair with Uchitel while his wife was pregnant, after their steamy text messages surfaced.
In her exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Robyn, 59, claimed that he started an affair with Uchitel in late November after meeting her online and walking out the door less than a month later – leaving heartbroken.
Ed had kept his plan to leave a secret – shipped his Porsche to Florida days before leaving, with Robyn claiming to have told her it was at the dealership to be repaired.
Uchitel (pictured) said Ed Robyn was ‘estranged husband’ and said they were divorced
Uchitel and Ed are depicted going in and out of each other’s Florida homes. Uchitel is pictured here in Palm Beach walking her dog. Ed lives across the street from her
Ed is pictured here in Palm Beach walking Uchitel’s dog. Ed’s wife, Robyn, claimed he left his family in California and moved to Florida five days before Christmas
Uchitel is pictured here with her daughter, walking around Palm Beach, Florida
Ed is seen here in Palm Beach, where he now lives in a rented three-bedroom mansion
Court documents seen by DailyMail.com show Batts filed for divorce on December 17.
She only realized that he was leaving her on December 19 when he boarded a red-eye flight to Florida and reportedly closed their family’s bank account, preventing her from accessing family funds.
Ed now lives in a rented three-bedroom townhouse across the street from Uchitel’s apartment building, although the two spend most of their time together and have been repeatedly photographed by DailyMail.com enjoying their new life.
Batts is pictured walking Uchitel’s dog and spending time with her eight-year-old daughter Wyatt, getting to know the area with a visit to a local CVS pharmacy. The new couple has been repeatedly photographed diving in and out of each other’s homes.
Robyn said of the “massive betrayal” that the kids – who were from a previous relationship – “didn’t want gifts and they didn’t want friends to come over to support us – they just wanted their dad for Christmas.” ‘
Robyn said Ed’s departure “came out of nowhere, so I’m still in shock. I am really still in shock. He spends a lot down there with Rachel. ‘
Robyn was only a widow when she met Ed in 2012. While living in Colorado, she had three small children and was carried away 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 purchased a $ 5.5 million Spanish-style five-bedroom home that they have lived in since their wedding in 2014.
Uchitel (pictured left in 2007 and right in 2011) made headlines in 2009 after it was revealed that she was golfer Tiger Woods’ mistress
Uchitel’s affair with Tiger Woods (right) contributed to the collapse of his marriage to Elin Nordegren (left). Woods and Nordegren are pictured in 2006
Uchitel will appear in the HBO documentary Tiger, where she talks about her affair with Woods. Woods and Nordegren are pictured in 2009, the year Uchitel had her affair with him
According to Robyn, he was also willing to be a father to her children, now 20, 15 and 14 years old, who barely knew their biological father because of his untimely death from cancer.
She says she had no idea there was anything wrong with her marriage until she noticed Ed was getting cold and distant around Thanksgiving.
The mother of three said, “I could tell he was treating us badly. Angry. I didn’t have time for us. On Thanksgiving, I found he couldn’t wait to get up from the table.
Then on December 5th we all went together to get a Christmas tree and spent two days decorating. He didn’t seem very interested in it. ‘
Robyn thought he’d met Uchitel around that time.
Robyn said Uchitel started talking to Ed on the phone regularly from December 5 – some of which she heard.
He told her that Uchitel was nothing more than a college friend and nothing to worry about, but on December 10, Ed left for a weekend.
The corporate lawyer, who works for the Gibson and Dunn law firm in Palo Alto, told his wife and children that he planned to plan a quiet weekend alone in the Midwest, Robyn said.
But he had other plans: Instead, he traveled with Uchitel to Jackson Hole for a weekend and met her at the Denver airport before continuing their journey together.
A hotel evidence seen by DailyMail.com shows how Ed saved $ 1,234 in dinner for Uchitel during their weekend at the five-star Amangani resort, and bought her Tampax and a hairbrush.
After returning home to San Diego, Ed continued to talk to Uchitel up to 10 times a day, according to Robyn.
He shipped his car to Florida on December 18. The next day, after finally telling his family of his plans, Ed followed on a red-eye flight.
Robyn said, ‘He spoke to my kids – my daughter was really upset. She is fourteen. Then he took off on the red eyes.
He said he needed some time to think and 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 he was with Rachel. ‘
The broken-up Robyn said this is the end of her marriage to Ed.
Van Uchitel was devastating, saying, “I just don’t have words for someone like that. Such people do not change. I don’t want to stoop to her level.
“I just don’t believe women should mess with married men and she does that constantly.”
Both Batts and Uchitel denied having any relationship with DailyMail.com. Batts also denied moving to Florida to be with Uchitel.
But on Sunday, Uchitel, who formerly owned a children’s boutique named after her daughter in New York City, was seen stepping out of Batts’ signature Porsche Cayenne SUV outside her home.
Uchitel will appear in the upcoming HBO documentary Tiger, which airs January 10-17, where she discusses her affair with the golfer.
“Here he was, in my bed, and he was my Tiger,” she says in the trailer.
The 45-year-old added: ‘After all this fuss about the scandal, I felt I had to remove the shackles of not having a voice at some point […] I don’t think people really get that. ‘