It has almost been a year - to the day - that Tiger Woods crashed his SUV, beginning a year-long (and still continuing) tailspin. A major player emerging from that scandal is back. Rachel Uchitel, everybody!

Uchitel is infamous for being Tiger Woods' connection into the seedy underworld of high-priced, marriage-breaking escorts. She has managed to be connected to Woods only as a businesswoman, and not as a lover.

Uchitel is one of the stars on the latest season of Dr. Drew's VH1 show Celebrity Rehab. Here in a Today Show interview, she dodges questions about her role in the controversy, while talking about her struggle with addiction, to... who knows what.

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