Tiger ' sex clinic star treatment'

ANGRY patients at a sex clinic where Tiger Woods is receiving rehab have accused the star of getting VIP treatment.

The world's richest sportsman has spent three weeks at the remote centre in Mississippi in a bid to cure his rampant lust.

Ultimatum ... wife Elin Nordegren

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But fellow patients who claim he is getting star treatment are furious.

While THEY must undergo group therapy, Tiger insists on only one-to-one sessions.

He is also said to get maid service, while other patients make their own beds, clean their rooms and have to scrub toilets as part of their therapy.

A source at the clinic said: "When Tiger enters one of the public areas, other patients have been told they have to leave the room. Other patients share a cabin, but Tiger has his own. His special privileges are causing a lot of resentment."

Shamed Tiger, 34, was said to have reluctantly checked in to save his marriage after blonde wife Elin, 30, gave him no alternative.

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His gruelling therapy includes Army-style assault courses, counselling - and a ban on pleasuring himself. He also has to do yoga and bare all about his cheating.

Tiger is said to still believe that he does not have a problem.

But he agreed to spend six weeks at the clinic in remote Hattiesburg after furious Elin ditched her wedding ring.

She also threatened to take daughter Sam, two, and six-month-old Charlie to her native Sweden.

Tiger's clean-cut image was wrecked after the couple had a blazing row over one of his affairs and he crashed his car outside their Florida mansion in November.

His stay at the Pine Grove Behavioural Health and Addiction Services clinic is costing him £38,000 - plus £60,000 he spent doing up his humble lodgings there.

The intensive therapy he is undergoing is called the Gentle Path programme. It is led by Dr Patrick Carnes, regarded as America's top expert on sexual addiction.

He claims that six months after receiving the therapy fewer than one in three patients relapse.

If they waver they are under strict instructions including phoning a friend, and reciting the Serenity Prayer:

Clean-cut ... Tiger Woods before the scandal

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

The courage to change the things that I can; And the wisdom to know the difference.

Elin has yet to visit her husband at the clinic. But part of the programme requires her to join him for a week.

Her stay will include a brutal "disclosure day" - when Tiger must confess to all his affairs.

Currently his mornings begin with meditation after breakfast.

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For those in group counselling, a special "stop word" is written on a blackboard - which patients must yell out if another one recites a sexual story that gets them aroused.

Tiger's one-to-one therapy means he at least can avoid that ordeal.

But he is still forced to keep detailing his sleazy sexual history - which he had to own up to when he entered the facility.

Meanwhile experts teach him the secrets of "shame reduction" and "setting sexual boundaries".

The source added: "Tiger's got a rough road in there. The treatment is very similar to that undertaken by drug addicts and alcoholics. He will have to face his demons."

Pine Grove yesterday refused to comment - as chiefs ordered security to be stepped up.

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