Sexual healing may just keep Tiger Woods’ marriage alive.
The golf great may have saved his marriage when he went into sex-addiction therapy at the insistence of wife Elin Nordegren — who threatened to divorce him and move to Sweden with their kids otherwise, her pals said.
“Elin could have filed for divorce already but she hasn’t,” a source close to her told Radar Online. “Of course, she has not said definitively that she’s staying with Tiger, but what’s happening now is crucially important.”
Woods, 34, has checked into the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction treatment center in Hattiesburg, Miss., after an endless stream of tawdry affairs became public following a bizarre Thanksgiving-weekend car wreck in which Nordegren reportedly chased him with a golf club.
Since the embarrassing disclosure of Woods’ voracious sexual appetite, Nordegren has been spotted without her wedding band and had been reported to be preparing to file for divorce.
But after Woods agreed to undergo treatment for his insatiable desire for busty blondes, Nordegren decided to put her divorce plans on ice. The marriage is “definitely not over,” a pal said.
One expert, Dr. Drew Pinsky, of TV’s “Celebrity Rehab,” estimated that it would take Woods anywhere from three to five years to successfully complete his treatment, and that being one of the most famous people in the world only made it harder.
“It’s difficult being Tiger Woods, and to go out and do 12-step meetings and do the things he needs to do. So we will see,” he said. “It’s usually not a straight line to success, so we’ll see what kind of bumps in the road there are.”