John Edwards' Saga a "Tragedy," says John Kerry
"Honestly, it's a tragedy," Democratic Sen. Kerry, who ran for president in 2004 with Edwards on the ticket, said in an interview that will air on CNN's "Larry King Live."
"I think everybody just feels awful about it," Kerry said, "in terms of their family, their relationship that everybody saw publicly, the promise, the hope, you know, obviously a capable career."
Kerry said he has not talked to Edwards recently but has spoken with Edwards' wife Elizabeth.
A spokesperson for Edwards told CNN a story from the National Enquirer reporting that Edwards is engaged to his mistress is "absolutely untrue."
Edwards recently admitted to fathering a child with his mistress. However, a former staffer for Edwards writes in the Huffington Post that Edwards weakened his statement of admission, which she helped him write.
"It was very different compared to the one he and I had worked on over the summer," Wendy Button writes. "There was a caveat to responsibility with the line, 'I will do everything in my power.' There was an unintended burden of forgiveness placed on Quinn for when she gets older. Gone were the words 'I lied.'"