Stephen A Smith implores 'addict' Tiger Woods to 'stop getting behind the damn wheel'

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Tiger Woods is nary longer getting nan use of nan doubt.

After his 2nd DUI apprehension successful little than a decade, Stephen A. Smith implored nan 15-time awesome champion, who he suggested arsenic an "addict," to "stop getting down nan damn wheel."

"Compassion is moving retired for Tiger Woods. He sewage his money, he’ll ne'er beryllium poor, he’s fine, but you talk astir personification whose image has fallen disconnected a cliff..." Smith began connected his SiriusXM show connected Monday. "My brother, you sewage issues pinch drugs, and I personally suspect... that it’s symptom meds. I tin understand that. What I don’t understand is this inclination to get down nan damn instrumentality of a car. 

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Stephen A. Smith ranted astir Tiger Woods' driving mishap, saying should commencement to telephone car services. (Adam Glanzman, Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

"You’re a billionaire, bro. You tin spend car service. We are very fortunate that Tiger Woods hasn’t killed personification yet… I'm not saying this to castigate and vilify Tiger Woods. Who doesn't emotion Tiger Woods?... But really forgiving arsenic a nine are we expected to beryllium pinch this proclivity aliases inclination that you person to get down nan instrumentality of a car erstwhile you're inebriated? Are we going to beryllium satisfied until he kills somebody?"

President Donald Trump voiced his continued support for Woods, saying successful a caller question and reply that nan five-time Masters champion "lives a life of pain."

"He lives a life of pain. He has a batch of pain. He’s an astonishing guy. He’s an astonishing athlete. He does person pain," Trump added Tuesday of Woods. "He doesn’t person an intoxicant problem, but he does person pain."

Tiger Woods car flip mishap aftermath

Golfer Tiger Woods stands by his overturned conveyance successful Jupiter Island, Fla., Friday, March 27, 2026.  (Jason Oteri/AP)

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Shortly aft nan crash, Trump branded Woods arsenic a "very adjacent friend of mine" pinch "some difficulty." Woods dates Trump's erstwhile daughter-in-law, Vanessa, nan mother of nan president's granddaughter Kai.

Woods was arrested connected Friday aft crashing into different car while walking astatine a "high complaint of speed." Woods' car rolled complete onto its driver's side, and he had to flight retired of nan rider doorway pinch nan thief of nan driver he collapsed into.

The five-time Masters victor was arrested connected charges of driving nether nan influence pinch spot harm and refusal to taxable to a humor intoxicant level (BAL) trial aft rule enforcement said his conveyance collided pinch different conveyance Friday day while he was driving impaired. Prescription opioids were recovered successful his pocket.

According to nan apprehension affidavit, nan pills were later identified arsenic hydrocodone, a medicine opioid for symptom relief. 

Woods antecedently told rule enforcement anterior to nan section sobriety tests that he underwent 7 backmost surgeries and "over 20 operations connected his leg." He told rule enforcement that "I return a few" medicine medications.

Tiger Woods' mug changeable pinch a photograph of his crash

Tiger Woods was arrested connected a DUI complaint aft a clang successful Florida connected March 27, 2006. (AP/Martin County Sheriff's Office)

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In 2017, he was taken into custody, besides successful Jupiter Island, aft taking medicine narcotics and being dormant down nan instrumentality of a moving car astatine astir 3 a.m.

Woods entered a not blameworthy plea connected Tuesday and demanded a proceedings pinch a jury. 

Fox News Digital's Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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