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Elin visits Tiger at sex rehab – report

Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, visited her sex-addicted hubby at a Mississippi rehab clinic, vowing to save their tattered marriage, according to a published report.

The Swedish beauty returned home yesterday after spending several days with Woods at the Gentle Path center in Hattiesburg, where he is undergoing treatment for sex addiction, RadarOnline.com reported.

“The marriage is not over. They both want to save it,” a source told the celebrity-news Web site.

Nordegren’s visit coincided with yet another bombshell in Woods’ sex scandal.

A sexy 42-year-old British woman was paid $500,000 to keep quiet about her torrid affair with Woods, 34, according to a newspaper report.

Emma Rotherham and the golfer first met at his favorite Orlando nightclub in May 2008, Britain’s News of the World said.

While Woods wasn’t interested in making Rotherham anything more than his on-call lover, he didn’t want anyone else’s paws on her — and demanded that she wear a wedding ring to ward off other men, the paper said.

Immediately after the post-Thanksgiving SUV smash that sent Woods’ world crashing, he reportedly sent a panicked text mail to Rotherham: “Don’t contact me. Elin is going through everything.”

david.li@nypost.com