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Mom: Rachel Uchitel, linked to Tiger Woods, lost fiance on 9/11

Quick ReadRachel Uchitel suffered a 'total breakdown' after her fiance died on 9/11, her mother said. Uchitel tried to set the record straight regarding her and Tiger Woods Monday.

Rachel Uchitel, a Southampton nightclub hostess, gets into

Photo credit: AP | Rachel Uchitel, a Southampton nightclub hostess, gets into a car in front of her Manhattan home on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. The National Enquirer published a story alleging that golfer Tiger Woods had been seeing Uchitel, and that they recently were together in Melbourne.

Rachel Uchitel suffered a "total breakdown" not long after her fiance died in the Twin Towers on 9/11, her mother said Sunday, before re-emerging as a nightclub fixture who policed velvet ropes from Las Vegas to Manhattan to Southampton.

Tabloid reports have linked Uchitel, 34, to the world's No. 1 golfer, Tiger Woods - an allegation she has denied.

"I think she has a very good heart,...

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