In her only interview since splitting from Tiger Woods, she tells WHO how she is coping with anger and grief

Her divorce is final and she's ready to talk. Elin Nordegren breaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with WHO magazine.

"I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children," she says in the magazine's latest issue, out just days after her split from Tiger Woods was made official.

The couple tied the knot in October 2004 in Barbados and have 2 children, three-year-old daughter Sam and 19-month-old son Charlie. A 10-minute court hearing in Florida ended their marriage on paper.She was stressed from the lurid tabloid scandal and had insomnia and weight loss. Just days before their divorce was finalised, she also began to lose her hair.

There was initial "shock and disbelief" on learning that her husband had cheated on her. Later, as a string of women, including a indecency star, a cocktail waitress and a Las Vegas club manager claimed affairs with her husband she began to question herself.

"I followed some of it, but not all of it. It was too distressing. I felt silly – how could I not have known anything?” she said. "The word betrayal isn't strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart."

Nordegren says she had been truly devoted to Woods and had hoped for a happily-ever-after life together with him.

"I loved him. We had so much fun," she said, "and I felt safe with him."

She also talks about the car crash outside their home and clears the rumours about what happened, "The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous."

The decision to seek a divorce was inevitable in the end. "Initially, I thought we had a chance [of saving the marriage]. We tried for months and months,  [but] without love and trust [it was impossible]," she says.

"I felt embarrassed for having been so deceived. I will always have a working parenting relationship with Tiger."

The 30-year-old mother of two, who is studying towards a college degree in psychology, says that despite her husband's betrayal, "I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself."

In 19 hours over four visits to her Windermere, Fla., rental home, Nordegren shared never-before-seen personal photographs and opened up to WHO about the emotional roller coaster she's been on, her life as a mother to Sam, 3, and Charlie, 19 months, and her hopes for the future.

"My immediate plan is for the kids and me to continue to adjust to our new situation. I am going to keep taking classes, but my main focus is to try to give myself time to heal," she says.

She tells the magazine this was her first – and last – interview, as she intends to remain a private person.

How many people come out of hell $100 million richer?? Lazy b.i.tch. Hell indeed

Whatever. She nearly kills her husband in a fit of rage, doesn't get charged because her husband protects her by lying and she walks away 100 million bones richer and she's talking about going through hell.

Tudór:

How many people come out of hell $100 million richer?? Lazy b.i.tch. Hell indeed

that's the kind of hell i want to go through.

See people angry over money that does not belong to them. It is their money. Not Tigers money. It does not matter if she was a shoe shiner or a medical doctor. You guys think that because he was not whooping her a.ss on a daily basis that she is not a traumatized woman. Madonna paid almost the same amount to Guy Ritchie. I don't hear anybody pooping on themselves over that

Outstrip:

It is their money. Not Tigers money.

bawomolo:

You too LOL

Shut up broad! You are lucky you are not a nigerian woman.