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Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel calls their rumored affair "ridiculous" -- and she's willing to take a lie detector test to prove her side of the story. Speaking out to The New York Post, the NYC beauty says the tabloids got it wrong. "Not a word of it is true," Rachel says. "I told the [National] Enquirer and Star [magazine] that it wasn't true. I told them not only did I have information to disprove the story, but I offered to take a lie-detector test ... It's the most ridiculous story. It's like they are asking me to comment if there are aliens on Earth." While she says it's her job to mingle with high-end clients, "Tiger and I are not friends. I've only met him twice. He came in to The Griffin [the nightclub where she worked as a VIP hostess] in the summer. As usual in my job, I got a call from a promoter that he's coming in. I went outside and brought him and his entire group in, walked them upstairs, introduced him to his waitress."

Rachel says she knows the girls who blabbed to the tabs, claiming, "[She's] not even a friend of mine. This girl was never around me for any of the time she was saying she was. If I was having some big, lurid affair, I would not tell this girl. It's just ridiculous. She got paid money to sell a story to the National Enquirer. I heard she got $25,000 and another girl got $25,000. The other magazines heard about it, but they turned it down because there was no hard evidence. She says the rumors are not as bad as a ruined reputation, however: "I don't want people to think I am having an affair with Tiger Woods, or that I am trying to leak some story that I'm having an affair with Tiger Woods. But that's less hurtful to me than them saying I am some pill-popping sex addict. Because a nice, normal guy that I would like to end up with -- hopefully they don't read Star and Enquirer -- they are going to have a tainted view of me, and that's not OK."

"It's gotten blown out of proportion. It all started with 'Tiger's in the hospital.' But then, as it turned out, it was a minor accident," Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn told The Post. "She's very aggressive when it comes to meeting celebrities," a Manhattan club source said. "That's her job: bring them into the club by any means necessary." The 34-year-old beauty worked at trendy Tao in Las Vegas and New York, as well as Marquee and the Stanton Social in Manhattan, during 2007. But the relationship with the company that runs the hot spots soured just a year later when she was sued by the operation, court records show.