I feel like when I discuss it with people, so many people share the same disease."

Yes, sex perp Rachel is walking in the love sick parade because she wants you to understand the pain she's suffered. And it really is a sad story.

Her dad died of a cocaine overdose, her fiance died in the U.S.'s worst terrorist act, and she every day of her life she gets called a whore and golddigger just because her married lover crashed his life into a fire hydrant.

It's been a rough year for Uchitel, dubbed Tiger Woods' "No One Ho" following revelations of the steamy love affair she had with the world ex-number one golfer. But Rachel's smart, and she stayed zipped -- at least, her mouth -- after Tiger's public implosion for which is allegedly made $10 million profit.

Now she's trying to recover from the devastating blow to her image, and not coincidentally, the "love addiction" for which she'll be treated on VH1's show.

"What I've come to realize is that love addiction hasn't been recognized in the addiction community. I think it's the most common addiction that people suffer from and yet the least common addiction that people talk about or give credibility to."

She says she's making progress in breaking her addiction, too. In an interview with Today she l said: "The issues that I have related to relationships are absolutely related to a hole that I'm trying to fill in my heart ...And I've come to realize what I do and I'm trying to figure it out and get better."

Watch her interview below on Today.