ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods fielded questions Sunday for the first time in the wake of his affair scandal, telling ESPN: "I've done some pretty bad things in my life."
"I hurt a lot of people, not just my wife," the embattled golfer said of his admitted infidelity. "My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that. That's why I had to apologize. I was so sorry for what I had done."
Woods, 34, granted ESPN a five-minute time limitation with no restrictions on questions. However, he declined to discuss the Nov. 27 car accident outside his home, telling interviewer Tom Rinaldi: "You know it's all in the police report. Beyond that everything's between [wife] Elin and myself and that's private."
Asked how well the world knows him, Woods responded: "A lot better now. I was living a life of a lie, I really was. And I was doing a lot of things, like I said, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly."
As for his return to golf on April 8, Woods admitted he's concerned about the reception he'll receive when he takes the tee at the Masters.
"I'm a little nervous about that to be honest with you," he said. "It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there."
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