April 26, 2010 2:43 PM

Rielle Hunter Talks About Edwards Affair

 

(CBS/AP)  John Edwards' mistress says she didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" to stay in the race after his wife's cancer returned.

Rielle Hunter said in an interview with GQ released Monday that she and Edwards have been in love from February 2006 until now. Hunter said she told him he shouldn't run. She suggested he at least wait until April 2007 because her intuition and astrology suggested he would have a difficult first three months of the year.

Elizabeth Edwards' cancer returned in March of that year. Hunter said John Edwards wanted to exit the race but that Elizabeth Edwards wanted to stay in. Hunter said, "I was shocked. I really viewed it as reckless."

John and Elizabeth Edwards are now separated.

On Friday, a former Edwards aide avoided jail again in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows the past presidential candidate and his lover in a sexual encounter.

Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones ruled that Andrew Young was not in contempt of court for his accounting of how he handled items that Hunter is seeking.

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by heliwife April 29, 2010 5:22 PM EDT
This lady is just another basic homewrecker/***** with a lot of fancy answers. She clearly has no remorse for the pain that she and John have caused Elizabeth Edwards. I don't know how these two sleep at night knowing that Elizabeth is dying with cancer and that her heart has been broken. Those two deserve each other. They need to take their love child and just go far, far away. They have no integrity, morals or common decency. Elizabeth, you can hold your head up high as you walk down the street. You are a classy lady!
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by bcpats March 15, 2010 3:37 PM EDT
If she loved/respected him, she would have just kept quiet. Money and attention is what she seems to want.
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by watkinsjr2000 March 15, 2010 1:27 PM EDT
Why is an interview with Rielle Hunter something that CBS considers important enough to report as news? John Edwards is a phony & a "has been".Hunter is a "never will be". The conduct by both of them has been disgraceful,& I'm sick of hearing about them.About the only things left to say about this whole sorry story are 1)These two should probably be together. They deserve each other (and that is no compliment.2)Thank goodness John Edwards didn't win the Democratic presidential nomination. He would have been a disaster for both the party & this country.
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by watkinsjr2000 March 15, 2010 1:26 PM EDT
Why is an interview with Rielle Hunter something that CBS considers important enough to report as news? John Edwards is a phony & a "has been".Hunter is a "never will be". The conduct by both of them has been disgraceful,& I'm sick of hearing about them.About the only things left to say about this whole sorry story are 1)These two should probably be together. They deserve each other (and that is no compliment.2)Thank goodness John Edwards didn't win the Democratic presidential nomination. He would have been a disaster for both the party & this country.
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by consh8theusa March 15, 2010 12:33 PM EDT
Jeez, what a goof, yeah you two will be together forever or until he meets another tramp.
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by Demoserver March 15, 2010 12:23 PM EDT
why is the opinion of Edwards mistress more important to feature than the devastation she has caused
to his wife? She is an unashamed harlot for her liason with a married man and chooses to rub salt in
his wife's wounds, and he is no better. They should fade away, neither of them is newsworthy.
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by OhCry March 15, 2010 11:51 AM EDT
My hero the Ambulance chasing cheater !

I guess the $400.00 haircuts are working Johnny !
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by tsigili March 15, 2010 11:41 AM EDT
What makes her think he will actually treat her any differently, than his wife, if they actually married????

Womanizers never change.
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by msay3 March 15, 2010 11:28 AM EDT
They both deserve each other....The only problem is that the child doesn't deserve either of them....
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by nativegurl0861 March 15, 2010 11:19 AM EDT
Rielle, Rielle..your day will come when Quinn is old enough to understand what you did, and how you treated people to get where you are today. You didn't care who you stomped on (Andrew Young)to get what you wanted. I think you were more upset that John Edwards listened to the advise from his Wife and not his Concubine.
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