Perez Hilton Offers Tiger Woods Advice

(Dec. 2) - If Tiger Woods wants a quick exit from the world of scandal he's entered, he might as well start listening to the Internet's No. 1 gossip "gangstar," Perez Hilton.

The self-proclaimed "Queen of All Media" is in New York this week, celebrating the release of "True Bloggywood Stories: The Glamorous Life of Beating, Cheating and Overdosing."

Until now, this is a world that the 33-year-old golf superstar has avoided.

But had the book come out a few weeks later, Hilton might have had to stop the presses so he could include Woods' controversial car crash alongside the scandals of Jon and Kate Gosselin and "Octomom" Nadya Suleman.

"Nobody was expecting this," says Hilton. "With Kobe, you weren't surprised. He was brash. He partied.

"But with Tiger, it was all about golf. You never saw him in the clubs. He was boring, and he had this armor of impenetrability. That's one reason it's so fascinating."

'My Wife Acted Courageously'

At 2:25 a.m. Friday, Woods slammed his Cadillac SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree. The airbags did not deploy, and Woods' wife told police that she smashed open the back window with a golf club to pull her husband from the vehicle.

Amid a storm of conjecture, celebrity sites have been speculating on the events leading up to the incident, including rumors that the couple had been fighting over an affair.

Two days before the crash, the National Enquirer published a story that Woods was having an affair with New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel and had rendezvoused with her recently in Melbourne, while he was competing in the Australian Masters.

Uchitel has denied any affair.

But on Tuesday, Woods' life further devolved into a soap opera, when another woman stepped forward.

Los Angeles cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs is telling Us Weekly that she had a 31-month fling with the golfer -- and that she has the voice mail records and text messages to prove it.

On a statement on his Web site, Woods is now saying, "I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

"I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone."

While this will go a long way in putting the matter to rest, Hilton says the golfer should have met the matter directly, because, in the age of the Internet, celebrity secrets can't be hidden for long.

"The second he walked out of the hospital, he should have laid it out," Hilton says. "Honesty is really the only form of damage control that works.

"Even if he just said, 'Yes, I had an affair, and I regret it, and I regret causing my wife and family pain,' the whole thing would have blown over in a day."

That still may be Woods' salvation. "If he comes clean, he'll go back to being boring," Hilton says, "and everything will go back to normal."

For Hilton, of course, "normal" means daily jousts with the likes of Carrie Prejean and Samantha Ronson.

For Woods, that means returning to being the world's greatest golfer.