Pleasure Behar later apologized on-air for her remark.
Aug. 22 2023, Printed 3:00 p.m. ET
Rachel Uchitel remains to be mad at Pleasure Behar for calling her a “hooker” on nationwide tv when her scandalous affair with Tiger Woods broke all these years in the past. The golfer’s ex-mistress desires The View co-host, 80, to personally apologize for the name-calling, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
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Uchitel made headlines practically 20 years in the past when it was revealed she had been carrying on a relationship with a then-married Woods. Whereas Behar apologized for the offhand remark in a later episode of The View, the previous nightclub hostess insisted it wasn’t adequate, revealing she nonetheless holds a grudge towards the skilled gabber.
Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods made headlines over their scandalous affair.
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“You already know ABC made her apologize,” Uchitel instructed David Yontef on his podcast, Behind The Velvet Rope. “You already know, a hooker is an unlawful occupation, so she was made to apologize as a result of it is one factor to be like, ‘Oh, she’s, you realize, a floozy,'” she defined, “however to say I am in unlawful you realize I am doing unlawful issues…”
Mentioning the double commonplace in society, Uchitel charged, “I used to be so offended {that a} girl ready of energy like Pleasure Behar might name me a hooker as a result of I used to be accused of being a mistress of a well-known man like Tiger. Why wasn’t she commenting about him dishonest allegedly on his spouse, and, as an alternative, she was calling me, the girl concerned, a hooker. Like, why wasn’t anybody, like, ‘Wait, how dare you say that? Is she a hooker? The place did you get your information?'”
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Rachel revealed she “by no means personally heard” from Pleasure in regards to the state of affairs.
Revealing she “by no means personally heard” from Behar concerning the incident, Uchitel insinuated that she did not consider Pleasure understood the magnitude of her phrases.
“It wasn’t one thing like in a while after she thought of it that she was like, ‘Hey, you realize, that was sort of terrible. I am sorry that I did that.’ I’d have thought that now, like, in spite of everything this time that is gone on and even the ‘me too’ stuff, like, girls have been actually the worst to me. It wasn’t males. It was girls. And I, you realize, I nonetheless really feel like she owes me an apology or she ought to at the very least deal with her habits as a result of I believe, you realize, that is so terrible to all the time blame the girl and say such nasty issues, particularly ready of energy like that. You may’t do this.”
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In response to Uchitel, Behar’s feedback took away the one factor she had left amid the headline-grabbing scandal.
Claiming that the host “took my credibility away in such a loopy method,” she defined, “My credibility was all I had, and I had nothing at that time anymore.”
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Rachel mentioned Pleasure took her credibility away by calling her the title.
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“I am nonetheless indignant about that,” Uchitel revealed. “I imply the truth that she’s nonetheless on that present, and this was earlier than folks have been canceled. I imply speak about folks being canceled. Someone ought to have gotten canceled for that.”
Regardless of her feedback, she backtracked when pushed if she really believed Behar ought to be canceled over the incident.
“Effectively, pay attention, I imply, I was a fan of Pleasure Behar. I nonetheless am,” Uchitel replied. “I used to be so offended when she would say one thing so ignorant. Do I believe she must be canceled? No. However I do suppose she wants to sit down again and take into consideration the facility of her phrases.”
RadarOnline.com has reached out to Behar’s rep for remark.
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Rachel has pushed ahead with life after Tiger, however their affair continues to observe her.
The View co-host shocked viewers when she said, “Uchitel – You could possibly inform… she’s a hooker” throughout a 2009 episode. Uchitel’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, fired off a letter demanding an apology.
“I’ve to clear one thing up,” Behar mentioned on the present. “Throughout a dialogue on Thursday’s present in regards to the alleged affair between Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel, I made a joke, I made a play on Ms. Uchitel’s title. This was supposed solely as a joke and I apologize for the selection of phrases and for any misimpression the joke might have created.”
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In response, Allred said, “We settle for ABC’s apology and this resolves the matter with ABC.
“Our motion and this apology also needs to ship a message to the general public that Rachel values her fame and that she is going to take into account all of her authorized choices towards anybody or any entity which defames her.”