Elin Nordegren Might Open Mental Health Clinic With Divorce Settlement

If somebody told you a year ago that Tiger Woods' personal and professional life would now be in shambles, awash in allegations of cheating on his wife with countless women, you would have been hard-pressed to believe it. Thing is, reality turned out to be much worse than what anybody could dream up. And now, newly divorced, Tiger's trying to put his life back together.

And so too is ex-wife Elin Nordegren, 30, who spoke publicly for the first (and last) time last week. According to a report in the Sunday Times of London, the former Swedish model who is now taking classes towards a psychology degree, has plans for her eight-figure settlement (or nine figures, depending on who's telling the story):

Elin Nordegren, whose divorce was finalized last Monday, is considering spending some of her $65 million settlement to set up a clinic providing mental-health counseling to underprivileged families in Florida...

Associates say Nordegren has been discussing with her twin sister, Josefin, a London-based lawyer, how she might use part of her settlement to help broken families and, in particular, children.

It's a noble endeavor, for sure. "Elin has a lot of ideas, including setting up her own clinic to help poorer children suffering from mental illnesses such as depression, eating disorders and hypertension, which can result from living in a broken family." "Maybe it's not surprising, but she feels strongly that children are the real victims when marriages fail," one of her campus colleagues told the paper.