Vanessa Trump has made it clear to boyfriend Tiger Woods that one more humiliating incident would be a ‘deal breaker’ and spell the end of their fraught relationship.
It comes after the golf legend pleaded no contest to reckless driving and refusal to submit to a lawful test on Wednesday after striking a deal with prosecutors in the wake of his DUI arrest.
Woods arrived at court with a stony-faced Vanessa on his arm and the couple were forced to wade through a crowd of photographers at around 8am at Martin County Court.
The 50-year-old was originally charged with driving under the influence but has now pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of reckless driving. As part of that deal, Woods will have his license suspended for five years.
Despite the public show of support from Vanessa, 48, the Daily Mail has been told from sources close to the couple that Woods remains on very thin ice with his girlfriend.
The source said that President Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law has bluntly told Woods to ‘get his s*** fixed’ if he wants her to stick around and she has no interest in being in a relationship with an addict, especially as she continues to battle breast cancer.
Vanessa Trump has told boyfriend Tiger Woods that any future humiliation is a ‘deal breaker’
Woods appeared puffy-faced as he arrived for his change-of-plea hearing in Florida
Vanessa was front and center inside the court as Woods pleaded no contest to reckless driving
They said: ‘Basically Vanessa has given him an ultimatum. Get his s*** fixed if he wants to be with her. She has zero desire to be with anyone who is going to be a project.
‘Kids are getting older, she’s got more freedom. The last thing she needs is to be the caregiver for a partner. She told him she wanted him to get it together, which included putting this all behind him. She was there to support him but she also wants to make sure that this is in the past.’
The source continued: ‘You know I love him but he just wasn’t there as much as he could have been for her cancer. He was taking care of his s***, but she needed him to be her rock and he couldn’t be.
‘I can tell you that she was frustrated. Here she is going through cancer treatment and he’s in Switzerland in rehab. That was a fail on his part. He knows it, she knows it. He knows she knows it. So at this point she wants him to face whatever consequences and pull it together. He should have gotten a driver years ago.
‘Now he can’t drive, but they have so much money it doesn’t matter at all. He can hire a driver to take him wherever he needs to go. It’s not a hardship.
‘She has told a [mutual friend] that she’s committed, but another incident is a deal breaker. Thin ice. It’s not that she doesn’t love him – she does – but she’s not going to be with an addict. She just won’t. It’s her line in the sand.’
The 15-time major champion was found at the scene of the crash in Jupiter, Florida, with two opioid tablets in his pocket, on March 27.
He has since spent time in rehab in Switzerland and had not been seen publicly since arriving back in America until last month.
A stony faced Vanessa sat a few rows behind Woods during the court appearance Wednesday
Woods in the back of a police cruiser after being arrested on suspicion of DUI in March
Woods, still one of golf’s most influential figures and as recognizable as any athlete in the world, has had a remarkable fall since winning the 2019 Masters for his 15th major.
The first Black golfer to win the Masters in 1997, his career has since been derailed by multiple back and knee surgeries, car crashes and dependence on pain medication.
Another source has told the Daily Mail that the scandalized Woods is finally willing to take responsibility for his actions and no longer wants to be a source of embarrassment for his family.
They said: ‘For Tiger, to change his plea to get the deal that he obtained tells him all he needs to know, and that is he now is living in a world of taking and accepting responsibility and living in a world of consequence. He is a role model, whether he likes it or not, he is a father and he is in love.
‘It has now taken all of this embarrassment to be a huge wake up call for him to finally snap into it and to start maturing and be an adult, be a fifty-year-old man that should now embrace living a life of obligation and commitment and live up to his legacy rather than forever tarnishing it.’
The source continued: ‘Vanessa has been a rock that he has taken advantage of, but he is now realizing the error in his ways, and he no longer wants to embarrass her, or embarrass her family.
‘He doesn’t want to be the one that stresses her out, especially while dealing with cancer. She’s already going through a lot, so to add to that is not something Tiger is looking to continue with.
‘As of right now, he has turned over a new leaf, he is looking forward to starting to play again and he is looking forward to moving on and he would love nothing more than to have all of this in his rear view.
‘Speaking of rear view, he hates that he won’t be able to drive, because he loves that privacy he gets with being alone, but it is a small price to pay to get back on track. So where he didn’t often live by his words in the past, many have seen a brand new Tiger and hope that this version sticks.’
