This kind of shocks the hell out of me. Elin Nordegren gave an extensive and exclusive interview to People Magazine, all about her ordeal at the hands of Tiger Woods’ wandering dong. According to People, the whole interview was 19 hours long, over the course of four days, and Elin gave them access before and after the divorce was finalized. Here’s People’s brief excerpt from their cover story:

Her divorce is final and she’s ready to talk. Elin Nordegren breaks her nine-month silence in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine.

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children,” she says in the magazine’s latest issue, out just days after her split from Tiger Woods was made official.

The 30-year-old mother of two, who is studying towards a college degree in psychology, says that despite her husband’s betrayal, “I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.”

In 19 hours over four visits to her Windermere, Fla., rental home, Nordegren shared never-before-seen personal photographs and opened up to PEOPLE about the emotional roller coaster she’s been on, her life as a mother to Sam, 3, and Charlie, 19 months, and her hopes for the future.

“My immediate plan is for the kids and me to continue to adjust to our new situation. I am going to keep taking classes, but my main focus is to try to give myself time to heal,” she says.

She tells the magazine this was her first – and last – interview, as she intends to remain a private person.

For much more, including exclusive photos of Nordegren at home, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE on newsstands Friday.

[From People]

Oh, so she’s playing the “this is the only interview I’m going to give” game. Okay. Sure. I’ll buy that. By the way, in case you thought People talked to her for 19 hours without getting any dirt, NBC’s Today show got the exclusive with the the People Mag reporter, and they also excerpted even more from the story:

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Elin also tells the mag that as more and more of Tiger’s mistresses came out, she felt “absolute shock and disbelief. I felt stupid as more things were revealed – how could I not have known anything? The world betrayal isn’t strong enough. I felt like my whole world had fallen apart.”

On Tiger: “I loved him, we had so much fun. I felt safe with him.”

On reportedly and allegedly chasing Tiger out of the house as she wielded a golf club: “The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous.”

On the SNL skits and late-night jokes parodying the violent allegations: “Pretty hysterical, even if they were totally untrue.”

Elin also confirms that she plans to raise the kids in Florida, and Tiger released a statement to People saying, “Elin is a wonderful mother. I know that two of us will do everything we can to help our children adjust to this new family situation.” Elin also plans to continue her education and get her Bachelor’s in Psychology.

Post-split, Elin says she’s “not watched one minute of golf.” And she says she probably won’t date for a while, but that she “believes in love.”

There’s a lot more in the Today show clip! Also, The Sun’s sources (I know) say that Elin’s settlement was much bigger than $100 million, and that she’s on the war path or whatever: “Elin is a strong, independent woman who has been badly wronged. It is not about money. She has turned down a host of offers. And she won’t really dish the dirt. She wanted to show she will not be silenced. She wants people to see she’s not allowing her husband’s legal team to call all the shots.” The Sun says: “But pals said reports she got ‘only’ £70million were ‘laughable‘. They insisted the deal easily beat the £100million Tiger’s basketball pal Michael Jordan paid his wife Juanita in 2007.”