Rachel Uchitel to Sue New York Post for 9/11 Story
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Rachel Uchitel in front of New York's Bellevue Hospital on Sept. 13, 2001, left, and in Los Angeles on March 2, 2011.
Rachel Uchitel isn’t “almost happy” about how 9/11 killed her fiance.
The former night club hostess and Tiger Woods mistress is fuming about a story put out by the New York Post’s Page Six Magazine that quotes her as saying she’s “almost happy” her relationship with investment banker James Andrew O’Grady ended on 9/11 when O’Grady died in the World Trade Center attacks. She first made headlines in the days after 9/11, when the New York Post published a photo of her in front of Bellevue Hospital grieving for her fiance.
“I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good,” the magazine quoted Uchitel, 36, as saying. “I’m almost happy it ended the way it did because I’ve learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced.”
Uchitel’s publicist told ABCNews.com that the ex-VIP hostess was misquoted and plans to sue.
“They took Rachel’s comments from another article wholly and completely out of context,” Uchitel’s publicist said in an email. “Rachel is demanding an apology and a retraction. She is seeking legal counsel to protect her rights and to make sure this does not happen again.”
Asked to respond, a representative for the Post told ABCNews.com, “We stand by our story.”
A video on the Post’s website accompanying the story features Uchitel reflecting on 9/11 but doesn’t show her saying anything that’s quoted in the story.
“I always miss Andy, that’s never changed in 10 years,” she says in the video. “It’s something that I experience as a loss every single day.”
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So she is happy he died because her life would have been so humdrum and she would have been just a housewife. Wow, speaks volumes to the type of person she really is.
Posted by: omg | September 6, 2011, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
OMG what a very insensitive nutcase . This is all about her.
Posted by: smoochie | September 6, 2011, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Sounds like the world would have been better off with him. She’s “almost happy”. Please. We choose how we’re going to live life. Whether you choose to be happy or miserable, it’s the choice only you can make.
Posted by: s | September 6, 2011, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Shallow much?
Posted by: SickofHypocrites | September 6, 2011, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
What an unreal piece of work. Signed, a fat housewife in Oregon.
Posted by: C Nieman | September 6, 2011, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
Oh now she is suing the Post for taking her statements out of context
Posted by: smoochie | September 6, 2011, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Miz Uchitel is so honest and believable that she must be a Republican. She looks like one. She dresses like one. She whines EXACTLY like one.
Posted by: TeaPartiersLie | September 6, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Her last 15 minutes of fame must not have been enough for her.
Posted by: Anson | September 6, 2011, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
Oh thank goodness. She’s channeled the pain and sorrow of her fiance’s tragic death and realized her dream of being a for-hire phony. Please, ABCNews. Make her story go away. Let’s honor the real people impacted by 9/11 as we approach the 10-year mark.
Posted by: Jfo19 | September 6, 2011, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm
one word…SELFISH…
Posted by: PR | September 6, 2011, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm
Are we really comparing her to the real tragic stories around 9/11? Please ABC — stop! you are becomming more and more a tabloid!!!
Posted by: sawyersmother | September 6, 2011, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
She’s trying to recoup the $10 mill she had to give back to Tiger for not shutting her trap! There is a special place for “ladies” like her!
Posted by: Monica | September 6, 2011, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
Like Lohan, her 15 minutes are up, so she is looking for another way to make money.
Posted by: Sue | September 6, 2011, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
I’m not sure what exactly was misrepresented in her “quotes”, but if someone ever posted or printed anything like that about my deceased husband and my feelings twords it, i’d attack them with all of the legal power i could afford. What a horrible thing to do to someone who is still yet grieving for their loved one! Its been 21 years sincemy husband was killed in a car wreck, and i am still grieving for the man! After only 10 years, my emotions were still raw as ever, so if the news got it wrong, they’ed better gear up for one hell of a fight over this mistake!
Posted by: jody killam | September 6, 2011, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
What she meant is that the memories she has of him are all happy loving memories, rather than conflicting feelings of a worn out apathetic relationship with fighting to remember… and even these comments are accusing her of saying she’s happy without him. It’s not just the media to blame, it’s the people like these that don’t even care to read closely into what someone means. Nobody has perfected the process of putting feelings into words and yet the first thing people do is jump to conclusions with a short fuse and a pointed finger. I wish the world would grow up and figure it out.
Posted by: think3times | September 6, 2011, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
P.S. She isn’t seeking money.. she wants an apology and a retraction. No money mentioned at all.
Posted by: think3times | September 6, 2011, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
I think her 15 minutes were up a long, long time ago.
Posted by: TJ | September 6, 2011, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
THINKS3TIMES – Well said. This is why I caution my daughters on believing everything that they read / hear…especially online.
Posted by: KC2CHI | September 6, 2011, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
I’m sure she is not glad her fiance died. She is simply a poor communicator.
Posted by: Benjamin | September 6, 2011, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm
hey you guys are really down on the girl…. tiger’s well has probably run dry after that divorce….. gotta have some way to pay for that plastic surgery, botox, dermabrasion, hair weave, and color …… must have cost a 100 bucks to get those brows arched……. as Peter Griffin would say …….”shallow and pedantic”……..
Posted by: SickOfIdiotsInCongress | September 6, 2011, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
REALLY??? She’s just interested in making some easy money… She needs to go get a job!!!
Posted by: Grace | September 6, 2011, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm