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We haven’t written about John Edwards since he got indicted, and his mistress-girlfriend Rielle Hunter allegedly dumped him. That was last spring, about a year ago. Or put another way, just a few months after Elizabeth Edwards died and John Edwards immediately (allegedly) proposed to Rielle. So let’s check in with John and Rielle, shall we? This story comes from The Enquirer, which has broken SO many stories about this horrible and sketchy situation. The Enquirer even got the details of Elizabeth’s will correct. Basically, I believe this story 100%. And while I don’t believe that Rielle and John should have to spend the rest of their lives branded with scarlet A’s, this situation still has enough vulgarity to make me sick. Rielle wants to have another baby, and she might be pregnant right now. And John might be going to jail, of course.
JOHN EDWARDS and his mistress RIELLE HUNTER are keeping a startling baby secret – the couple has made the shocking decision to have another child! That’s what sources tell The ENQUIRER as the 58-year-old disgraced former presidential candidate prepares for his federal trial in April.
“Rielle’s biological clock is ticking loudly and she’s desperate to have another baby with John,” a source close to the 48-year-old blonde divorcee told The ENQUIRER. “She’s not sure what the future holds for John, and that’s made her even more determined. She wants to get pregnant before the trial begins. She’d love to have another sibling for their daughter Quinn. And John, who loves children as much as she does, is on board with the baby plan – and it’s given him even more impetus to win his trial and not go to prison.”
“”Meanwhile, Rielle feels comfortable in her new role as suburban soccer mom. She’s made friends with some of the other mothers in the neighborhood and has even shown excitement about missing her period.”
Edwards’ career and personal life exploded after he was exposed as a cheater by a series of blockbuster ENQUIRER exclusives beginning in 2007. After vehement denials, he was finally forced to admit paternity of Quinn, now 4, before his wife Elizabeth lost her heroic battle with breast cancer on Dec. 7, 2010.
The affair also sparked major legal woes for Edwards. Last June, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on six felony charges that he illegally used campaign funds to cover up his extramarital affair.
If convicted, the former senator faces a maximum 30 years in jail and $1.5 million in fines. He denies doing anything illegal.
Last June, The ENQUIRER revealed that Rielle dumped Edwards just days before he was indicted, and sources said she would testify against him at trial. But Rielle has now forgiven him, say insiders, and she rushed to his side after a frightening heart condition delayed the start of his trial.
Edwards’ two youngest children with Elizabeth – Emma Claire, 13, and Jack, 11 – live with him at his family home in Chapel Hill, NC, while Rielle and their daughter live nearby.
Rielle has curtailed alcohol in preparation for her pregnancy, and because she worries John may end up in prison, “she’s made having another baby top priority,” disclosed the source. “Rielle is happy that she and John are doing well and that his children have finally embraced her, but she wants a family of her own. She’s in great physical shape, so she’s hoping to get pregnant soon – if she isn’t already.”
[From The National Enquirer, print and online editions]
There’s just something NOT RIGHT about both John and Rielle. I feel like Rielle lives in a delusional bubble of self-pitying self-absorption and John has joined her there because the reality of his own life is too frightening. What a wonderful way to bring yet another life into the world.
Also, I don’t buy that John’s family with Elizabeth – Cate, Emma and Jack – even get along with Rielle at all. I don’t buy that John is even in Emma and Jack’s lives all that much. Isn’t Cate raising her younger siblings? Wasn’t that Elizabeth’s wish?
Photos courtesy of GQ, WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in John Edwards, Rielle Hunter
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Icky poo!! I wish I could forget these two horrible whores existed.
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I hope Cate is bringing up her younger sibings, I’m sure that’s what Elizabeth wanted.
John & Rielle belong together, two lowlifes. Hope he goes to jail before she can get preggers.
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It’s not what Elizabeth wanted. John is the kids’ dad, no matter what. She made peace by the end with him and never wanted the children’s relationship ruined with him. Her daughter deserves a chance at a carefree newly-married life, not now saddled raising tweens.
I always thought John would move on and have someone new in his life that wouldn’t bring so much pain to the family, but I guess he loves Rielle. I don’t get it. His older daughter is still close to her father, also, and has stood by him during his legal problems.
All three lost their mother. The worst case scenario would be not being close to their dad, effectively losing all their parents. He is a weak man. A man with character would have moved heaven and earth to make her last year on earth an easier one, not for a second her ever having to think Rielle was in his life. For piece of mind she had to divorce him as that was not the case. Very sad story.
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I sadly agree. It may be poetic justice for him to wind up alone but that would in effect orphan the three children and they’ve all been through enough. UGH I hate that people have to be grown ups. BUT in cases like these people have to be grown ups.
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It may have been what Elizabeth wanted, but “Johnny” is their dad. Their sole legal parent. As angry as she was with her husband, she did not have the legal right to pass on custody of their kids to their eldest daughter.
I never thought that provision would hold up in court — and personally, I don’t think it’s fair to Cate. She’s a young woman and should be focused on living her own life. Not raising her younger siblings as part of a vendetta against their dad.
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Just because someone is a biological father doesn’t make him a great dad. He’s a lying pig that makes consistently bad choices. Not a great role model for his children. The young woman, Cate, wouldn’t have agreed if she didn’t feel it was the right thing to do. We don’t know her life.
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It doesn’t matter, though. The court would have to find that John is an unfit parent. I can’t stand the guy, but he is the kids’ father.
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Vulgar is only the tip of the iceberg with these two soul sucking vampires. What he did to his ailing wife was just disgusting and beyond redemption. I hope he becomes someone’s prison bitch and loses all of his hair.
He had such promise but like so many like him he can’t say No to the little guy in his pants. I hope the sex was worth it.
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Even the simple fact that he’s 58 and she’s 48 should stop them from having a baby.
Add in all the other sleazy, skanky facts and it’s a quadruple no.
But these two never let reality stand in their way before. Why start now?
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Exactly. Rielle seems to be too old, even for IVF. The number of healthy eggs left is probably low.
If they proceed, she’d probably have to do the same thing that Elizabeth did to have Emma and Jack — use donor eggs.
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I laughed at the part of the article that said she was excited because she had missed her period.
Lady, you are probably peri-menopausal or in menopause. Not effing pregnant.
But who knows? These two are the height of delusional skanky stupidity.
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Suz, in my heart I want you to be right. But “menopause” babies are more common than you might think. Women quit using birth control because they think they’re past it and their periods are sporadic, and then Bam, along comes a baby. Happened to my sister. She jokes that she is raising her own grandchild.
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Remember Elizabeth Edwards was 49 when she gave birth to Emma Claire & 51 (!!!) when she gave birth to Jack. It doesn’t seem that age is a factor or a consideration for these people.
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Elizabeth freely admitted she used donor eggs…maybe that’s what they will do now?
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These people have such little common sense!
Got my dates wrong. Apparently she was 48 & 50. But she didn’t freely admit it as there were political ramifications if she had:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2004/10/did_elizabeth_edwards_use_donor_eggs.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2
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As much as I dislike my son’s father, had he said for years that our child wasn’t his, I would have dropped him and been done. I know the situations were different, but a real man takes responsibility for his actions. John Edwards is a coward, not to mention a liar. And Rielle is just an idiot. Soooo..I guess they deserve each other.
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I worded that all sorts of wrong. I dislike my sons father, but he never once denied our son. HAD he…then the rest.
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Right?? Forget about how slimy these two have behaved over the last several years. That’s a given. My question is, who on earth would want another child with the man who loudly and publicly denied you and your first child?? I would never speak to him again (except in a courtroom!) and I certainly wouldn’t be pining away for a family with him. We know this woman is crazy, but this, this is utter nonsense.
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She obviously loves him and is devoted to him. BUT when this narcissistic woman gave the interview in the magazine and on Oprah I have never been so disgusted by someone in my life. Talk about classless. A woman was dying, a woman that you, along with her husband, caused immeasurable pain. Could it have killed you to have kept quiet and never said a bad word about Elizabeth and not shouted to the rooftops about your delusional soulmate affair with “Johnny”? Ughhhh.
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My thoughts exactly. The Oprah interview made me physically ill the way she completely disregarded the wake of destruction she created. Rielle is a huge sociopath and invents scenarios; maybe to assuage the guilt she might feel if she was in her right mind.
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That last picture of her holding her child looks straight up inappropriate. I can’t exactly place why, except it just looks sexualized and out of place with a child there.
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The whole photo shoot she did with GQ (I think) a few years ago was completely inappropriate and very, very, strange. Freakishly so to me.
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ITA! And what’s with the purposely untied sleepwear? UGH
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The most ridiculous part of the shoot was that she had the gall to blame the photographer for “sexualizing” the situation. As if she didn’t realize she was posing provocatively with her child’s stuffed animals on a bed with no pants on.
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I have lots of sweats/pajama bottoms with strings like those and I’ve never tied them. It has never occurred to me to do so. I just let them hang. They’re not long. You don’t need to tie them anyway. They don’t hold the pants up–elastic does that. Making those sweats into something sexy/inappropriate is just looking too hard for something to bitch about. Doesn’t this woman give us enough material already?
I utterly DESPISE this woman and the criminal asshole she consorted with (is consorting with?), but I think this photo is fine. A little sweet even. Although perhaps a bit exploitative in that there was no reason for this photo shoot to have ever taken place n the first place. But there is zero sexuality to that photo. C’mon now.
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I agree. Creepy to be laying down on the bed with your clothes undone and giving sexy face to the camera while holding your baby. Ugh. She is VILE.
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Highest level of douchebags.
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She’s 48 and wants to have a baby? That’s what’s crazy.
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According to Glamour nov 2011 Emma and Jack live with their father.
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Has it been confirmed that they’re even together?
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At 48 the clock is still ticking? Yeah, right. Maybe in a test tube somewhere…..
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I laughed at that line too. “Biological clock??” That thing stopped ticking a longggg time ago!
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Well at least one part of the NE article is wrong–Rielle and Quinn live in Charlotte, NC (about 3 hours from Chapel Hill). My friend’s daughter is in Quinn’s dance class.
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She says she wants another child and he wants one too b/c he just loves children. Did he forget he has other children? That’s how it sounded to me, like he forgot that he has three other children. Maybe he should focus on getting the four children to interact more seeing as how they are half siblings and really it wasn’t the little girls fault the way she was born.
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I’ve said it before. As disgusting as these two are, at least if they were a REAL couple (as in, cohabiting) Little Quinn would get the benefit of living with her siblings.
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That might benefit Quinn (emphasis on the might part), but I don’t think it would be good AT ALL for the preteens to have to live with Rielle. 1, she is freaking crazy, 2, she is their father’s mistress, 3, she disrespected their mother while she was DYING.
No, let her and Quinn stay far away from those poor kids. It’s bad enough they have to live with HIM!
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She’s crazy? I mean, for real, is she? I’ve never heard this. She’s obviously a douche who has stupendously poor judgment, but I didn’t know there was anything going on with her as far as mental health conditions go. Elaborate! I’m very curious. She does seem a little sketchy, but I figured it was just poor character and ethics. Or do you just say she’s crazy because she had an affair? I’m asking for real, not being sarcastic at all!
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@Jessica — Literally crazy. Her antics, her odd behavior (GQ photo shoot, demanding literally millions of dollars to keep quiet while claiming Johnny was her “soulmate”), her history of extravagant lies and exaggerations, her disturbing ability to delude herself and to believe that she can convince others of her delusions (see the Oprah interview if you have not already)…I believe there is some sort of serious mental illness at work there.
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these two sleazeballs are still around? yuck.
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…pond-scum sticks together and multplies…..
this man ( using the term loosely) has NO shame.
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“She’s not sure what the future holds for John, and that’s made her even more determined.”
Oh yes Rielle, this sounds like a recipe for success.
One offspring of the crazy Rielle Hunter is enough. Please, for the love of God, do not create more!
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We really dodged a bullet having someone with such horrible judgement a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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I don’t know that he was ever a “heartbeat away from Presidency”, but yes I totally agree that he has horrible judgement. Might I add that anyone who looked at him while je was running for President and could noy see what a lying sleezeball he was, and is, have just as bad judgement and should not be allowed to vote. Maybe that is harsh, but he oozes slime and it was sool obvious!
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Ol douchebag Johnny should be cryin’ today….The FEC just reordered Edwards to payback 2.1 million and he has less than a month to payup.
Karmas a b*tch ain’t it Johnnyboy?
He has shamed the good state of NC.
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Agree.
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Rielle . . .”has even shown excitement about missing her period.”
WHY WHY WHY does anyone need this level of detail. Yuck.
Those poor children. All of them.
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she is really a sick woman, look at her passed actions, she set that man up from the get go, having her friends – family calling NE, about everything, and his stupid behind denying everything, good for him. i hope he goes to jail for putting his wife through all that, with that crazy nut job her last years on earth.
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How crazy is this woman:
- he denied your first child
-you’re 48, he’s 58
- he’s facing a possible 30 year prison term ( won’t happen)
Really how many reasons does she need to not have another child. My daughter’s father never denied her, but he has only seen her twice and she turned 2 two weeks ago. I already want to punch him in the throat. I can’t imagine what I would do to him if he had said she wasn’t his. Some people are just glutton for punishment.
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That 2nd pic you have of John makes him look like Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock.
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I believe that Rielle’s relationship with John Edwards is over, and has been since before Elizabeth died, but Rielle still wants to be with him and she plants these stories. I’ll bet that John Edwards is going to end up marrying some other, more respectable, woman.
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What “respectable” woman is going to take him???
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This guy’s a has been who never was. Who cares what he’s doing in his life?
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Horrible sleaze bags..both of them. Yuck.
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Rielle lives in Charlotte which is my local area and the local paper runs J. Edwards stories from time to time. He has his 2 young children with him.
I seriously doubt there is anything between him and Rielle but the child.
but then again, people lie.
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Rielle Hunter, Lindsey Lohan, Leann Rimes, and Courtney Stodden all have the same level of delusion. They should be best friends and go live together on a deserted island.
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I saw Riley at the park one morning and EE in the mall later that same day (couple years back) lets just say EE was pure class and RH was…not.
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I agree with Baylor!
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Men love crazy women.
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