Tiger Woods’ ex Kristin Smith wrote a lengthy social media statement regarding the golfer’s “triggering” DUI arrest Friday.
The stylist told her Instagram followers Sunday that she dislikes “being dragged back into these moments and untrue narratives” now that she has “moved forward” from the romance.
“Beyond that, after traumatic unrelated incidents over the last couple of years, I don’t handle being unexpectedly approached or confront[ed] well, and it can be deeply unsettling for me,” she wrote on her Story over the weekend.
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Smith added that she and her family members have been dealing with “anxiety and fear” of “being contacted, watched or followed, in hopes of provoking a reaction about something” that hasn’t involved her in “a very long time.”
The influencer explained that she has “taken the time to process” her personal experience with Woods, 50, and is “grateful for moments that have shaped her.”
Alluding to her ex, Smith continued, “I hope people will remember that the person they have celebrated and been entertained by is, above all, a human being, and deserving of decency too, just like anyone else.”
Smith doubled down on requesting privacy for her family before stating that she has “chosen silence around this situation” for nearly a decade, seemingly referencing their reported arbitration over an NDA.
“That decision wasn’t always easy,” she concluded. “Finally, not abandoning myself feels cathartic. Moving on.”
The businesswoman, who shares 18-year-old son Isaiah with retired NFL star Gerald Sensabaugh, dated Woods in 2016.
The duo split ahead of the latter’s DUI arrest the following year, which came to light after he fell asleep behind the wheel.
“Kristin Smith and I are no longer dating and haven’t since last year,” he wrote in August 2017, three months post-crash.
In the May 2017 accident, the PGA golfer had Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien and THC in his system.
He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of reckless driving in a plea deal in October 2017.
Woods also crashed his car in 2009 while under the influence of sleeping pills, and again in 2021 when he fractured his legs in a nearly-fatal single-car crash.
Woods’ most recent rollover crash happened in Jupiter Island, Fla., as he attempted to pass a pressure cleaner truck and clipped its trailer.
