'Tiger Woods used lawyer to break up with me': Ex-girlfriend

Herman has filed a lawsuit against Woods

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ ITDC NEWS : Tiger Woods's ex-girlfriend said in an August 2017 email her only concern about signing a nondisclosure agreement was losing her job in his restaurant if the relationship ended and having control of her future in the business.

“I don't have any problems with what's in the document because I wouldn't go public or use anything I know to hurt him or the kids,” Erica Herman wrote in the email to the CFO of Tiger Woods Ventures.

“But with my whole life in his hands now I would want to have some control over my future in the business. If something happened 5-10 years down the road I don't want to be in my 40s heartbroken and jobless.”

The email exchange was part of documents filed on Sunday evening in advance of a Tuesday hearing. Woods's attorneys are expected to ask Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger to halt Herman's lawsuit against their billionaire client. They say the former couple's NDA requires all disputes be settled privately by an arbitrator, not in court.

Herman has filed a lawsuit against Woods, accusing golf's biggest star of beginning their sexual relationship when she was his employee and threatening to fire her if she didn't sign the NDA she now wants voided.

Her email to Chris Hubman, the CFO of Woods's company, was sent on August 7, 2017.

“In my mind, your employment by The Woods Jupiter and your personal relationship with TW are two separate items,” Hubman wrote back the next day. "I don't think the end of one automatically impacts the other ... although I admit it could be complicated. It will most likely depend on the terms, condition or reason for the relationship ending.

“The NDA doesn't address the terms of your TWJ employment ... only the dissemination and control of information that you become privy to as a result of your personal and professional relationship with TW.”

She signed the NDA on August 9, 2017, according to documents.

Herman, in court documents filed late on Friday, also accused Woods of having his lawyer break up with her at an airport last October after falsely telling her they were going on a weekend trip to the Bahamas. She says the lawyer then evicted her from Woods's $54 million mansion north of Palm Beach and tried to get her to sign another NDA, which she refused.

Herman, who managed Woods's Palm Beach County restaurant before and during the first years of their romantic relationship, argues the NDA is unenforceable under a new federal law that says such contracts can be voided when sexual abuse or sexual harassment occurred. Her attorney, Benjamin Hodas, contends that Woods's alleged threat to fire her if she didn't sign the contract was harassment.

“A boss imposing different work conditions on his employee because of their sexual relationship is sexual harassment,” Hodas said.