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Tiger Woods granted his first interview since his November car crash – and subsequent sex scandal – admitting that he has “done some pretty bad things in [his] life and that he was “a little nervous” about his upcoming return to professional golf in April.

“I was living a life of a lie, I really was,” a sober-sounding Woods told ESPN at Isleworth, a golf club near his Windermere, Fla., home. The five-minute interview aired Sunday night during SportsCenter. He also gave five minutes to the Golf Channel.

“Stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly,” he said.

Part of the recovery process was acknowledging his indiscretions both to his family and to the public. On Feb. 19, Woods appeared at press conference during which he apologized for his behavior during a 13-minute speech. “My real apology will not come in the form of words, but my behavior over time,” he said at the time.

During Sunday’s interview, the golfer said making that public statement has ultimately given him strength. “When you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now, I’ve never felt that type of strength,” Woods said.

Tiger Woods: I Was Living a Lie

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Josh Duhamel and his wife Fergie will be parents one day. Just not yet.

“We’ll go there are some point,” he told PEOPLE at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas, while promoting his movie Life As We Know It.

In the movie, Duhamel, 37, plays the father to an orphaned child. The experience, though fictional, taught him one very important lesson about fatherhood.

“I learned a lot from these kids,” he said at the Warner Bros. junket. “The amount of patience it takes, I guess, is the big thing.”

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