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Tiger Woods: Yes, Elin really is one of my ‘best friends’

Tiger Woods is very proud of his relationship with ex-wife Elin Nordegren.

Despite the nasty cheating scandal that brought Woods and Nordegren’s six-year marriage to an end in 2012, Woods shockingly said in a 2015 Time interview that Nordegren is “one of my best friends.”

On Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert pressed the golfer on that interview, asking, “How is that possible? Keeping your ex-wife your best friend, given how that ended, my friend. That’s more impressive than being 11-time PGA Player of the Year. Honest to God, how do you do that?”

“She’s been one of my best friends and I’ve talked to her about so many different things and she does the same thing with me. We go back and forth,” Woods, 40, responded. “We communicate so much better now, it’s incredible. I wish we would have done that earlier on, but it’s been incredible to have a best friend like that.”

Woods shared that it all comes down to doing what’s best for their two children, Sam, 9, and Charlie, 7.

“And we love them so much that we are going to whatever it takes to make that work,” Woods said. “That’s how it happened.”