Tiger Woods was surprised that he was being handcuffed after crashing his SUV last week in Florida, per body camera footage released Thursday.<\/p>\n
“I’m being arrested?” Woods asked of Martin County Sheriff’s deputy Tatiana Levenar, who conducted \u200ba sobriety test on him.<\/p>\n
“I do believe your normal faculties are impaired, and you’re under an \u200cunknown substance, so at this time you’re under arrest for DUI,” Levenar told the 15-time major champion.<\/p>\n
The footage also shows deputies removing two pills from Woods’ pocket.<\/p>\n
“That’s a Norco,” Woods said after an officer removed the pills, which are a painkiller. Authorities later \u200bconfirmed that Woods was in possession of hydrocodone.<\/p>\n
Woods contends that he was looking at his phone \u200band changing the radio station when his Land Rover clipped the back of a truck \u2060and rolled onto its side on Jupiter Island, Fla.<\/p>\n
The bodycam footage also shows Woods informing a police officer \u200bthat he was on the phone with U.S. President Donald Trump shortly after his crash.<\/p>\n
“Thank you so much. All \u200bright. You got it. Bye,” Woods said as he walked over to an officer who had beckoned him back to the crash scene, informing them that “I was just talking to the President.”<\/p>\n
Woods is dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of the President’s oldest child, \u200bDonald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n
On Thursday night, President Trump announced during a Fox News interview that Woods would not be playing \u200bin this year’s Masters, something that Woods had not yet announced publicly.<\/p>\n
When asked about Woods’ crash, Trump said Woods was a “very \u200cclose \u2060friend, saying, “I feel so badly. He’s got some difficulty. There was an accident, and that’s all I know. He’s an amazing person, amazing man, but some difficulty.”<\/p>\n
Trump previously told Reuters that Woods seeking treatment was “a good thing” and he believed the golfer was “going to be terrific.”<\/p>\n
The release of the bodycam footage comes one day after Woods was \u200bgranted a request by a \u200bFlorida judge to leave \u2060the United States to enter a comprehensive inpatient treatment facility as he faces misdemeanor driving under the influence charges.<\/p>\n
Martin County Court Judge Darren Steele granted the motion to \u200btravel submitted by Woods’ attorney, Douglas Duncan, who cited the 50-year-old golf superstar’s need \u200bfor an “intensive, highly \u2060individualized and medically integrated program” away from media and public scrutiny.<\/p>\n
Woods released a public statement on Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty in a Florida court to charges of misdemeanor driving under the influence with property damage.<\/p>\n
The \u2060arrest affidavit \u200bstated a breathalyzer test showed no signs of alcohol, but that \u200bWoods refused a urinalysis test for other drugs.<\/p>\n
The affidavit stated Woods was “sweating profusely,” his movements were “lethargic and slow,” his eyes were “bloodshot and glassy,” his \u200bpupils were “extremely dilated” and that during the field sobriety exercises, Woods was “limping and stumbling to the right.”<\/p>\n
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