NBA legend Charles Barkley has an advice for Tiger Woods, following the exposure of his extra-marital affairs.
The former basketball star forwarded support to the golfer and hoped he would be able to move on with his life.
"You say you're sorry, you apologize and you go forward. There's nothing more," the New York Daily News quoted him as telling Jim O'Donnell of the Chicago Sun-Times.
He added: "I think any celebrity who pays these 'crisis management' people or PR people to speak for them is an idiot. Say your thing, say you screwed up, my bad, move on."
Barkley believes Woods, whom he calls a friend, "a grown man. He can do his own thing.
"But I do think there is something sinister where they pay women who have slept with a married man to keep texts and e-mails from him. That's wrong."
Barkley related his own experience of serving a three-day sentence on a drunken-driving charge in March.
He said: "When I got my DUI, it was like - 'Chuck, hey, man, what are you going to do? I'm like, well, I really screwed up. I'm going to say, 'My bad, I really screwed up.' Ain't nothing more. You think I'm going to pay somebody to say that for me?"
Woods has decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf in a bid to save his marriage.
