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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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Elizabeth Edwards Expects DNA Test for Husband's Alleged Love Child
Originally posted 08/20/2009 08:30AM
Amid several unconfirmed reports that her husband, former Sen. John Edwards, is nearing an announcement about the paternity of his former mistress's 18-month-old baby, Elizabeth Edwards says she expects a DNA test will take place – and hopes it can be done quietly.
During a Wednesday night appearance with CNN's Larry King to debate health-care reform, Mrs. Edwards, 60, was asked about DNA testing of Rielle Hunter's baby daughter, Frances.
"My expectation is that, at some point, something happens," she replied. "And I hope for the sake of this child that it happens, you know, in a quiet way."
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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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Elizabeth Edwards Talks about Fragile State of Her Marriage
Originally posted 05/05/2009 10:25AM
Proving the title of her new memoir, Resilience, to be accurate, Elizabeth Edwards sheds some highly personal insights into her life, her health and her husband's infidelity in a TV interview with Oprah Winfrey to air on The Oprah Winfrey Show Thursday. A companion article also appears in the June issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Speaking exclusively with Edwards – as well as with her husband, the former presidential candidate, John Edwards – in the couple's 28,000-sq.-ft. home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Winfrey inquires after the state of the couple's marriage. "Is it a day-by-day thing?" asks Winfrey.
"Neither one of us is out the door," replies Elizabeth, according to a partial transcript of the interview provided PEOPLE by Winfrey's Harpo Productions, "so I guess it's day by day, but maybe it's month by month."
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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 Tends to 'Gravely Ill' Mother
Originally posted 10/10/2008 06:45PM
Elizabeth Edwards has canceled all of her October speaking engagements so she can care for her "gravely ill" mother, it was announced Friday.
Detroit's Metro Parent Magazine said in a press release that among the speeches Edwards will miss is a magazine-sponsored address next week.
Her mother, Elizabeth Thweatt Anania, 85, lives in a nursing facility near Edwards's Chapel Hill, N.C., home and has been in declining health since losing her husband in March, Edwards' brother, Jay Anania, told PEOPLE in August.
On top of her father's death, her own battle with cancer and the public exposure of her 55-year-old husband John's affair, Elizabeth Edwards, 59, has this year "also been dealing with my mother's very, very difficult handling of her husband's passing after 60 years together," says Jay Anania. "It's extremely difficult what my mother's going through and that's just down the street from Elizabeth."
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The Edwards Affair: The Mysterious Other Woman, Rielle Hunter
Originally posted 08/14/2008 12:40PM
Rielle Hunter, the 44-year-old campaign aide with whom former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted to having an affair, seems to have had as many personal transformations as she's had names.
Hunter went from a New York City party girl to an aspiring actress in Los Angeles to a New-Age spiritualist and then, finally, to a political operative.
Pigeon O'Brien, a music publicist who's known Hunter for 20 years, says she's most puzzled by Hunter's latest role. O'Brien was especially disturbed by negative comments Hunter made about Elizabeth Edwards in a recent Newsweek story.
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Elizabeth Edwards Speaks Out About Affair
Originally posted 08/08/2008 08:30PM
Elizabeth Edwards says her husband John "made a terrible mistake" by having an affair, but coping with the revelation was "oddly made somewhat easier" by her battle with cancer.
"None of these (problems) has been easy," she writes on the political blog Daily Kos. "But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him."
• For the transcript of John Edwards's interview with Bob Woodruff of ABC News, click here.
Elizabeth, 59, says her husband, 55, told her about the affair two years ago – months before her breast cancer returned.
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John Edwards: I Am Ashamed of My Conduct
Originally posted 08/08/2008 05:15PM
Former Sen. John Edwards, who has admitted to having an extramarital affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, released an official statement Friday.
In it, Edwards, 55, vows to take a paternity test to establish whether or not he is the father of Hunter's child, as has been speculated about in the press.
Read the complete statement:
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99 percent honest is no longer enough.
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John Edwards Admits to Having an Affair
Originally posted 08/08/2008 03:25PM
After repeated denials that he was involved in an extramarital relationship, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has confirmed that he indeed did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, though he denies that he loved her.
Speaking to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff in an interview scheduled to air Friday on Nightline, Edwards cited the timing of Rielle's baby's birth, on Feb. 27, 2008, as proving he is not the father, because the affair with Hunter had ended, he said. He has not submitted to a paternity test.
Former campaign aide Andrew Young has claimed paternity of the child.
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