Tiger Woods' caddie of over ten years,
Steve Williams, is breaking his silence about the scandal surrounding the golf great's extramarital affairs -- and revealing he's mad at Woods. "Of course I'm mad at him. I mean, why would you not be? He's obviously let his family down," Williams tells New Zealand's "60 Minutes" program on the country's native television network TV3. "I'm not mad because he's let me down," Williams continues, "I'm more disappointed that he's let his family down and let himself down. I'm close with his wife, and he's got two lovely children, and he's let them down." The 46-year-old New Zealander maintains he know nothing about the golf great's affairs, but he says he sees why some people might have trouble believing that: "If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing -- that it would be very difficult for the caddie not to know, but I'm a hundred percent telling you, I knew nothing." "It's been the most difficult time of my life, no two ways about it," he adds, "because every single person, like you said, believes that I should know, or did know, or had something to do with it." Williams says that if he had known about Woods' affairs, he would have spoken up: "I'm a straight-up sort of person. If I'd have known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown. He knows that." Nonetheless, Williams says he remains "fully supportive" of the golf star and looks forward to seeing him return to the PGA tour. "When you're a true friend of somebody, that's when somebody needs your support and needs you the most. That's when you don't walk away. Tiger's a very good friend of mine -- one of my closest friends -- and he needs my support right now, and I'd never think of walking away," he says.
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