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BUZZ: Will John Edwards Own Up to Lovechild?

Originally posted 09/21/2009 03:30PM

What's up with John Edwards?

If you had him on Google Alert this weekend, your e-mail inbox would have been swamped after The New York Times published a story speculating about whether the two-time Democratic presidential candidate – who has already admitted to two-timing his wife of more than 30 years, Elizabeth Edwards – is ready to admit he fathered a child with a former campaign worker.

In August 2008, Edwards, after earlier denials, confirmed that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter, a videographer he met on his 2008 campaign. At the time, Edwards, now 56, denied fathering a child, saying the relationship ended before Hunter's infant daughter was conceived.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards, 60, is battling breast cancer, first diagnosed in 2004 and considered incurable.

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Friends Say Elizabeth Edwards's Marriage Will Survive

Originally posted 05/08/2009 07:00AM

As Elizabeth Edwards speaks out about her husband's affair with a campaign worker in a new book, Resilience, those who know the couple predict the Edwards' marriage, difficulties aside, will survive. "John and Elizabeth still love one another," says John Moylan, a family friend. "I think they will make it through."

In her new book, Elizabeth Edwards writes that after learning her husband was cheating, "my sense of what I meant to the people around me was ... shaken." She recalls that she went to a bathroom and threw up when John broke the news.

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Husband's Affair Made Elizabeth Edwards Sick to Her Stomach

Originally posted 04/30/2009 02:50PM

Elizabeth Edwards was so devastated upon learning her husband was having an affair that her reaction was physical. "I cried and screamed," she writes in a new book, "I went to the bathroom and threw up."

Edwards, who is battling terminal breast cancer, will release her unflinching memoir, Resilience, on May 12. In an advance copy obtained by the New York Daily News, she reveals that she learned of the affair just a few days after Edwards started his 2008 Presidential run.

Although she publicly stood by him, she privately wanted him to drop out of the race. "He should not have run," she now says.

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Elizabeth Edwards: Trust Is 'The Most Difficult Hurdle'

Originally posted 09/18/2008 01:25PM

Nearly six weeks after news broke of her husband John's extramarital affair, Elizabeth Edwards opened up about her "ongoing process of finding your feet again."

"There's a lot of adjustment to make," Edwards told the Detroit Free Press in her first interview since her husband, 55, a former presidential candidate, admitted in a TV interview that he had been unfaithful. "Trust ... [is] probably the most difficult hurdle."

Edwards, 59, says that as she continues to undergo treatment for her stage 4 breast cancer, she remains optimistic because "With the research, it looks like there may be a new drug for me down the line. My job is to stay alive until they find a cure. I don't think there's any way to live with this diagnosis than to have that kind of optimism."

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The Edwards Affair: Elizabeth's 'Excruciating Anguish'

Originally posted 08/13/2008 03:00PM

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards stunned the nation with his televised confession Aug. 8 that he had an extramarital affair. Battling cancer that her doctors call incurable, his wife, Elizabeth, issued a statement in support of her husband – but how is she really doing?

"There was anguish – excruciating anguish – for her in dealing with this," Elizabeth's best friend Hargrave McElroy tells PEOPLE in its new issue.

Behind the public show of strength, the Edwards' household has been a scene of turmoil and tension since John, 55, first began revealing the truth about his affair with former campaign aide, Rielle Hunter, 44, after the formal launch of his campaign in the final days of 2006. "He told the truth slowly," according to one source close to the couple.

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