Barbro Holmberg rushed to Florida hospital

Published: 8 Dec 09 17:25 CET
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Tiger Woods' Swedish mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg is reported to be in a stable condition after being admitted to a Florida hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Health Central Hospital spokesman Dan Yates in Ocoee, Florida, told the Associated Press that Holmberg was admitted in with stomach pain.

She arrived at the hospital via ambulance in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 911 emergency call was placed from the Woods mansion outside of Orlando.

"She's doing well under the circumstances," a source told the Expressen newspaper.

"It's not life-threatening."

Holmberg, Sweden’s former migration minister and current governor of Gävleborg County in eastern Sweden, is in the United States with her daughter Elin Nordegren amidst an ongoing scandal involving a number of alleged infidelities by her star-golfer son-in-law.

Media outlets in the United States have been speculating for much of the day about who exactly was whisked away from the Woods estate. The woman, seen in video footage shot by a local television station, was described as being a middle-aged female with blonde hair, spawning theories that it was likely Holmberg who had taken ill.

A spokesperson for Holmberg confirmed on Monday that the governor of Gävleborg had cancelled all her appearances for the week and had taken leave from her post.

The news of Holmberg’s hospitalization comes following reports that Nordegren has moved out of the Windmere mansion she shares with Woods and their two children and has decamped to another house in the area.

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17:47 December 8, 2009 by livinginsweden
Did Tiger cooked dinner for her?

Oh the rumor mills could go crazy on this one too...

ha ha
17:59 December 8, 2009 by bettan1
No kidding.

Now let's sit back and wait for all the natural born Aryan brotherhood residents to chime in on this one.
18:01 December 8, 2009 by Plowbridge
I hear Tiger only offered $50m and she laughed so much...........

(hope she gets better though)
18:02 December 8, 2009 by krigeren
Right now the media and Tiger's PR people are operating from standard play books. Tiger is not the first star this has happened to and he will not be the last.

The reason why the media loves these stories is so often the PR people representing the star fallen from grace do such a poor job of damage control making the whole situation worse.

Tiger needs to bring levity to the situation and now. A well written script where he hosts Saturday Night Live addressing the issue could be one solution.

He is an athletic superstar. This was always probably a question of when and not if as it if for most people in his position.

It is interesting to see how the wheels in motion are playing out....Tiger can still salvage most everything...I don't think he is relegated to pitching his "Tiger Driver Series" a 10" strap on and female pleasure device quite yet...although there are probably a adult toy companies waiting in the wings ;-)
18:46 December 8, 2009 by calebian22
Research. As a Swedish politician she is just checking out the American health care system.
18:49 December 8, 2009 by Newyork-Växjö
I hope she get well, We are close to new year and she is sick that is sad.

May Allah gives happiness unity to all of us and bring peace to this world (Ameen)
19:07 December 8, 2009 by jack sprat
Newyork

"May Allah gives happiness unity to all of us and bring peace to this world"

Afraid the only peace Elin and Barbro are looking, for is a piece of Tiger's hide.
19:32 December 8, 2009 by tommycapes
looks like the porn star relationship was the straw that broke the camels back.

good bye elin hello all the beautiful women in the world?

lets hope it doesnt affect him on the course and he gets back to winning those last 5 majors. men like him are not put on this earth to be parents and family men, they are put on this earth to be winners.

good luck tiger!
20:15 December 8, 2009 by vladd777
I believe that Tiger Woods is suffering from sex addiction! Hopefully he starts getting therapy soon before he gets the other deadly disease.

I feel sorry for the little kids!

Very mixed kids too so they're bound to develop identity problems as they get older.

A vicious circle has been created.
20:27 December 8, 2009 by pallomamy
this can happen to everyone in this world! so keep your mouth shut and think about your morning bread! thats much better!
21:18 December 8, 2009 by justanotherexpat
Does this mean Elin is available?? Woohoo!
22:01 December 8, 2009 by krigeren
@justanotherexpat

You think your driver is better than Tigers?
09:19 December 9, 2009 by salalah
Tada tada tada tada dada.... (Music from Jaws).. . The real shark has arrived!

Looking at some pictures of her in the tabloids, she looks quite scary. This is Elin in 28 years... Run, Tiger, Run!!!!!!
16:53 December 9, 2009 by efm
Thumbs up for the US health care system. Elin screammed 911,

and an ambulance rushed complete with IV fluids and all for food poisoning??

If Barbro was in a socialist country, after eating a tainted sausage, The other person in the line would have said:

Oh, that's food poisoning, take Kaopectate, drink a lot of fluids and call us in a few days, if things don't improved.
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