Elizabeth Edwards is “abusive, intrusive, paranoid, crazy” says new book

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For the past few days, the world of politics and the world of tabloid gossip have been intertwined on in the news because of the publication of the book Game Change, written by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilman. It’s a behind-the-scenes account of every major primary and presidential campaign from the 2007-08 political season. Over the weekend, most people were discussing the revelations that Sen. Harry Reid was (and could still be) the kind of man who casually remarks things like “Barack Obama is a light skinned African-American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” There are lots of political bombshells and juicy gossip, and if you’d like to know more, I suggest you simply tune in to CNN, MSNBC or Fox, because they’re all doing wall-to-wall coverage.

What I didn’t hear this weekend, and only began hearing this morning, was the new information about former Senator John Edwards, his wife Elizabeth and his mistress and baby-mama Rielle Hunter. There are new details about that scandal, and since we’ve been covering every sordid detail that comes out of the Enquirer, I thought we’d bring some more information:

Cancer-ridden Elizabeth Edwards ripped open her shirt screaming “Look at me!” at a terrified John Edwards after his affair with Rielle Hunter was first exposed by The ENQUIRER, a new book reveals.

Game Change [sic] an inside account of the 2008 Presidential Race by John Heilman and Mark Halperin reveals shocking new details about the John Edwards cheating scandal.

In the book, Edwards is described as an out-of-control narcissistic who became an egomaniac after meeting future mistress Rielle Hunter. His affair with Hunter, who told people she was a “witch”, was an open secret among his chief advisers — three who quit early in the campaign.

John Edwards is described as delusional while the public image of “saintly Elisabeth’s public persona” is shattered. Openly battling with John in front of aides, she belittled her “intellectually inferior” hubby in front of campaign workers.

Insiders describe her as “an abusive, intrusive, paranoid condescending crazy woman,” according to the book.

When The ENQUIRER first revealed the affair, John and Elizabeth fought violently in the parking lot of an airport terminal.

“Elizabeth was sobbing, out of control, incoherent. As their aides tried to avert their eyes, she tore off her blouse exposing herself. ‘Look at ME!’ she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground,” the authors recount.

In the wake of Edwards dismissal of The ENQUIRER’s investigation as “tabloid trash” it was only after The ENQUIRER’s world exclusive “spy photo” appeared in print and online of the disgraced candidate holding his love child by Hunter that Edwards admitted the affair, denying paternity, on national TV.

“Confronted then with the ENQUIRER photo of her husband cuddling Hunter’s baby, she insisted to (an aide) that she still believed he was not the father.”

‘I have to believe it,’ Elizabeth said. ‘Because if I don’t, it means I’m married to a monster.'”

With former loyalist and pretend daddy Andrew Young’s insider tell-all of the affair and the cover-up to be published next month AND the ongoing federal probe into Edwards’ use of political campaign funds to engineer payoffs to his mistress, for John Edwards the worst is YET to come.

[From The National Enquirer]

The Enquirer also got a scoop that was picked up by other media outlets: that Elizabeth was planning on meeting Frances, the daughter of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. The Enquirer’s sources claimed: “Elizabeth feels that above all else, John and Rielle need to put their differences aside… As much as she hates that John has a second family, she can’t stand the idea of Rielle going public with their dirty laundry in court. She instructed John to have his lawyers call Rielle’s people and say they’re giving her what she wants. She’s also going to meet Rielle’s little girl face to face over the next few weeks.” The sources also claim that Elizabeth has a “soft spot” for Frances and that “Despite her anger at Rielle, who she’s painted as a stalker and a homewrecker, Elizabeth knows Frances didn’t bring any of this about…Elizabeth sometimes breaks down in tears when she talks about Frances. Once she said, ‘She needs a daddy.’”

With the mainstream media still picking up stories that the Enquirer broke – not just in regards to the Edwards’ family, but also the Tiger Woods drama – you’ve got to wonder if the Enquirer might be getting some love sent their way. On that note, it seems that some political blogger (Emily Miller of Politics Daily.com) thinks that the Enquirer should get a Pulitzer for breaking the John Edwards story. Hmm…

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  1. Iggles says:

    The sources also claim that Elizabeth has a “soft spot” for Frances and that “Despite her anger at Rielle, who she’s painted as a stalker and a homewrecker, Elizabeth knows Frances didn’t bring any of this about…Elizabeth sometimes breaks down in tears when she talks about Frances. Once she said, ‘She needs a daddy.’”
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    Somehow I don’t quite believe this..

  2. LolaBella says:

    Whoa, I forgot how totally tawdry this whole scandal was. Yikes.

  3. Shannon says:

    Um, I don’t see where John Edwards gets off calling his wife a witch. The ass cheated on her and had a baby with his mistress, then lied about it while secretly paying for her living expenses! All while his wife was battling terminal cancer! I’m pretty sure that Elizabeth has every right in the world to treat her husband like the little worm he is.

    Villifying the woman for being nasty about the situation is absurd.

  4. Jo says:

    Shannon, I think crazy RH is the one who told people she was a witch. What an insult to real witches.

  5. Leticia says:

    Iggles, I agree.

  6. nycmom10024 says:

    Shannon
    It is not Elizabeth that is called a witch,Rielle Hunter refers to herself as a witch.

  7. Ally says:

    This book was written by two “political journalists” who make hay from rehashing conventional wisdom and bashing liberals. They’re now making hay from recycling National Enquirer stories. They should feel so proud.

    I don’t believe any of these tawdry details. It would not be surprising, though, if Elizabeth Edwards was as upset as Elin Woods. With the added upset that her husband was killing a political career that she had helped him build for years.

    The despicable characters here are John Edwards for not remaining faithful, these “reporters” for recycling tabloid material, and all the TV anchors who will invite them on to salaciously pore over this hash obsessively (as they did with the Clinton mess), since it is so much more fun for them than helping the country understand the financial mess we’re in and the wars we’re involved in.

    Throwing stones at Elizabeth Edwards is hideous. She’s a smart, dignified, liberal woman, and has always behaved as such in public. I think that’s precisely why there is such a fervent desire to destroy her (as with Hillary Clinton). It’s one thing to gossip about vapid celebrities, it’s another to try and dirty up a political figure with a serious illness who’s tried to do something positive for the country. The authors of that book should be ashamed; instead they’ll be invited on TV by Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell. Yuck.

  8. Goddess711 says:

    Well if she IS crazy, how’d she get that way? All the lies, denial and public humiliation? Yeah, if she IS then she was driven to it.

  9. lin234 says:

    I agree Shannon.

    Is it really necessary to defame a woman with terminal cancer and cheating husband?? It seems to me she’s spent her life standing by her husband and trying to support his political ambitions. Just because he’s in politics doesn’t make him smarter than her. Is she supposed to stand quietly by his side and smile to be considering a good person/wife?? She has every right to be angry at her lying, cheating husband.

    Fighting cancer is already an emotional roller coaster. Add in infidelity and having the world know the sordid details, it’s no wonder she enraged at that scoundrel. Not to mention, she will be spending however little time she has left dealing with this entire mess. I’m sure she’s already dealing with her own private hell on earth. There really is no need for anyone to fuel that fire for her. This is just intentionally cruel. Shame on them.

  10. Sumodo says:

    I read the entire exerpt online and found it compelling to read. Elizbeth is very, very much the “pants” in the relationship. Lots of insider dirt. I always thought there was a sleazy, Amway-snakeoil side to Edwards, and felt vindicated and dirty for having noticed it in his first campaign. Oh, I forgot to mention I worked in Washington and there, almost every man is like Edwards.

  11. Peach says:

    Whatever.
    If I get terminally ill and find out the father of my children and husband of upteen years not only cheated, but had a baby with another woman…
    Ripping open my shirt is probably the most rational thing I’d be doing that day.

    If being pissed about a shithead husband, if sobbing over a tragic event is paranoid, well lock me the fuck up.

  12. ering says:

    I live in Chapel Hill and have had a few random casual encounters with Elizabeth Edwards, and the only impression she left on me was that of a genuinely nice and pleasant person.

  13. javelin says:

    If she doesn’t want to accept lies as truth or be married to a monster it seems divorce would be a good route.

    Also, if she’s intellectually superior (which I don’t doubt) why didn’t SHE run for president, or become a powerful politician? Seems like she became bitter and abusive because she devoted her abilities to a man who squandered them. In my mind Elizabeth Edwards’ legacy is a sad one– An illustration of how common goals can be merely an illusion, and the painful aftermath of salvaging remnants of self from a dumpster of hypocrisy.

  14. Essie says:

    My suggestion to all of you is to read the book excerpt in New York Magazine. It is online now and is a very good read. They do not “rehash” stories from the National Enquirer, they confirm those stories. The book actually names sources and the things they write are not gossip. Read it.

    As for the NatEnq breaking stories . . . please, they just throw stuff out there and occasionally they get lucky and something sticks. If they win a Pulitzer, I’m giving up on life!!

  15. Sumodo says:

    SPEAKING OF FORMER VEEP CANDIDATES: Perez Hilton is on this: “Sarah Palin has signed on to be a contributor for Fox News! It comes as no surprise. There have been rumors that Palin would begin a media career and the multi-year deal will give Sexy Sarah exactly what she wants – face time! The failed vice presidential candidate will appear on several of the network’s programs so we expect some HIGHlarious sound bytes.
    If only there was a Sarah Palin show! Maybe by 2012 (aka the end of days)!”

  16. ! says:

    Word, Shannon and Ally!

  17. annie says:

    Speaking of the palin chick – I thought one of the funnier things from this book was the reason that palin asked Biden if she could call him Joe during the debate: in her practice session she kept calling him OBiden. Freaking fool lunatic.

  18. Gigohead says:

    Looks to me that Rielle is spinning this story. Ha! I doubt Elizabeth wants to meet his love child. I think she has plenty with her own kids to be wanting to be spending time with her husband’s love child.

  19. CIdee says:

    Crazy? Paranoid? Damn straight. I’d be a lunatic if my husband started another family while I was dying of cancer. She’s clearly no saint but none of us is. He is a first class crumb (as my father used to say) and I don’t blame her one bit. I’d be on the warpath, too.

  20. Iggles says:

    ering:
    “I live in Chapel Hill and have had a few random casual encounters with Elizabeth Edwards, and the only impression she left on me was that of a genuinely nice and pleasant person.”

    No offense, but it always bugs me when people say this defense.

    People usually act different in public than they do in private. Behavior varies in different settings. For example, while you might lounge around in your pajamas at home you probably wouldn’t do so at work. Likewise, you might show reserve at work whereas you may feel more emboldened and relaxed around friends.

    To sum it up, having an impression of someone in public does not present an accurate picture of one’s personal character.

  21. And I thought my family was screwed up!

  22. Tess says:

    Elizabeth Edwards is, was, and always will be more politically ambitious than her pretty-boy husband.

    That in itself sets up a negative dynamic in a marriage.

    As for the truth about her personality….clearly mainstream liberal “journalists” were smitten with her and unwilling to print anything negative, and, understandably liberal voters support her, but conservatives recognized and were leery of her ferocious ambition.

  23. snowball says:

    Elizabeth can be a total nut if she wants to be. I know what kind of pain she must have been in (and still is) from cancer and the treatments – and then she gets to learn that her scumsucking husband is not just screwing another woman, the piece of dog doo actually got her pregnant – and I’d assume that was deliberate, because condoms aren’t that expensive.

    I don’t know Elizabeth, but she seems to be held in high regard and even affection by a lot of people who would have reason to know her (maybe those three advisors who cut and ran when they found out what her husband was doing). She’s no saint, but this idiotic book seems like it’s more interested in being as tawdry as it can rather than being anything approaching objective.

    I don’t know who’s more book smart between the two of them, but John Edwards has a creepy shallowness about him; narcissistic is about the nicest thing I can think of to say about him.

    Anyone remember that YouTube clip of him combing his hair for five minutes before some television show?

    And I liked Heilman and Halperin. Ugh.

  24. ering says:

    @Iggles

    I’m not offering it as a defense. I just said it.

  25. Catherine says:

    There is no defaming here, in my opinion of EW. She herself wrote a book about her life and this whole topic last year and did the whole publicity circuit. These people bring this on themselves. EW has been very open about her anger and now someone is making a buck off of it.

  26. coucou says:

    All I can think when I look at pics of this guy is “he is such a BITCH.” He is goin’ down, and this is just the beginning.

  27. Tia C says:

    John & Elizabeth Edwards’ marriage is the perfect shining example of why I will never again waste my precious time trying to be married to a man. She will never get that time back that she wasted on him.

  28. pickelhaube says:

    God, leave the poor woman alone. If I was her I’d be a superbitch as well after what her husband did. And I’m an evil Republican yet I feel bad for her and think they just need to let her be. Like things aren’t hard enough for her….but my mom read her book and said she was annoying and couldn’t even finish the book because of it. But still…I can’t blame her. I’d have gone batsh*t if my husband pulled that crap. She’s a saint if she’s even nice to the kid, I’d get all the money I could from John and leave it to MY kids, but I’m just vindictive like that. LOL.

  29. Cinderella says:

    As unfortunate as this is for Elizabeth, I still wouldn’t let her anywhere near Frances.

  30. ccoop says:

    @Peach: Damn straight. Couldn’t have said it better.

  31. Rosanna says:

    I have no difficulty believing this. I don’t like EE mainly because one should never loose her dignity the way she did (at her own doing, before the interviews and the book it was all and only JE’s fault). No she sounds like a person who just can’t let go of things, and people cut her slack because she’s terminally ill. If she weren’t, everybody would call her crazy the way they called Denise Richards.

  32. lin234 says:

    @ Peach: I agree.

    @ Rosanna: I guess people see things in a different way. I view her autobiography, interviews, whatnot as a dying woman who wants the world to know her side of the story while she has time. Maybe she’s just trying to control one tiny portion of her life.

    How is she supposed to “let go of things”? She spent a good majority of her life married to the vile man, had children with him, supporting his career, etc. She doesn’t have any time left to start over or whatever the hell you think she should be doing. Christ. Have some sympathy for a woman who has gone through some of life’s greatest tragedies: losing a son, fighting recurring cancer, spousal infidelity which led to a child by the mistress…

    Even associating her with Denise Richards is silly. She was a respectable attorney whose talents didn’t extend as far as showing off her body.

  33. WTF?!? says:

    A bunch of fu¢king losers, the lot of them.

  34. Ally says:

    @Essie: “confirm” is your nice word for my “rehash”.

    Did those stories need confirming? No, it’s recycling tabloid investigations into “serious” (hahaha) Washington journalism, just to kick a liberal, neither of whom is currently in elected office nor is campaigning for pure family ethics.

  35. Maria says:

    totally true. john edwards is known for being completely out of touch with reality, doing things like getting $400 haircuts. no surprise that he is a pure a-hole. my brother is a cop/swat and was assigned to protect the candidates as they visited our state. he said edwards talked down to them and treated them like mall security, demanding they go get him things. at least bush was respectful to them, asked them about their lives, and thanked them. so much for soft, loveable liberals.

  36. Tru says:

    I guess I don’t understand why she is till with him–take the loot before that out of wedlock child does and split..

    enjoy life, the kids that want to go can move to Paris with you and change ya damn name..go to culinary school/buy a bistro and let John worry about how to pay that whore off.

    looking at him would only make me re-live it how he threw away the family’s future..I’d never stay around.

  37. Wresa says:

    Peaches- Took the words right out of my mouth!

    Javelin- I’m also with you. Where is her self-empowerment? If she has the time to defend her husband and insult his mistress, why not use the last of her strength to divorce the philanderer?

  38. Then Again.... says:

    Rielle Hunter is the scumbag who bagged a scumbag. Let’s not forget that.

    To seduce a married man and deliberately conceive his child does not make the woman a saint. She is truly proud of her actions as I can her smirk on her face in every picture.

    She taunts Elizabeth to the point of sheer insanity and abuse. If she weren’t so ill with cancer, Rielle would have had the crap beat out of her.

    I hope that Rielle has the pain of having a daughter that will eventually lose all respect for her. She can’t have a real relationship with a man – she has to steal one to conceive a child and get money for it.

    She loves throwing that child in Elizabeth’s face. I hope she knows she is hurting her own daughter by using her as a ploy.

    Elizabeth needs to stop seeking revenge against Rielle. That way Rielle is certainly to look pathetic when her actions do nothing to harm.

  39. Ophelia says:

    @ Ally, I totally agree with you. Really well said, too.

    @Peach, I agree with you, too.

  40. justathought says:

    Elizabeth may want to meet this child because the little girl is her children’s sister.
    I wish she’d roll pretty boy Edwards in kitty litter and dump him!

  41. Zewt says:

    Elizabeth Edwards lost the majority of what sympathy I had for her when she wrote her revenge-stylized-as-self-help book book, went on a publicity tour for it, and actually childishly refused to speak Rielle Hunter’s name during interviews. She’s as full of crap as her husband and she’s being cut way more slack because of her illness. No one in this scenario behaved admirably ever, and the article in NY Magazine is very believable.

  42. Cat says:

    I’m confused about the part where she rips her shirt open. Why did she do that? Was it just to get his attention, or point out her cancer, or was she just going crazy? Anyone know?? No one seems to be able to answer this, and it’s driving me nuts.

  43. RobN says:

    It’s not paranoia if the guy really is screwing around on you. It’s good sense.

  44. Zewt says:

    I assume she wanted him to look at her scars from mastectomies and treatments. Didn’t her cancer begin in her breast?

    A sort of “look at me, I’m dying, could you pay attention to me and my needs, please” gesture… it makes my blood run cold to think that any marriage would have gone to a place that scary.

    Of course, I don’t understand how they could have decided to continue with the presidential campaign after receiving the news that her cancer was terminal. It makes me sad that they did not just go home and be together with their children, that the “career” was more important than anything else. Look what it got them.

  45. Uzi says:

    @Cat…Elizabeth had breast cancer, which later spread. According to this article, she became hysterical after learning of her husband’s affair, so ripping her shirt open to bare her surgery scars makes perfect sense in the context of her reaction.

    From what I’ve read and heard about this book so far, it dishes on both Democrat and Republican candidates. So why is there so much hostility from you right wingers? Do you not realize that a majority of Democrats think that John Edwards is a scumbag?

    As for the National Enquirer, they are no less legitimate than mainstream media. Read Emily Miller’s Politics Daily piece. The Pulitzer Prize thing is ridiculous, but she makes a lot of interesting valid points in the rest of the article.

  46. ~A says:

    Cat,
    I assumed it was to make him look at her mastectomy scars.

  47. Celebitchy says:

    @Goddess711 and Lin234: Agreed – if Elizabeth Edwards was going a little crazy or whatever it’s no wonder after what her husband put her through. I still think she should have handed his cheating ass to him on a platter, though and divorced him.

  48. BW says:

    Peach and CIdee, I couldn’t agree more. I dunno Rosanna, but I think I’d rather lose my dignity than lose my mind! If EE did or said what was alleged, I personally do not think it was too far off base, under the circumstances. And how can EE begin to “let it go” when regardless of what else happened or happens, that baby’s right there in EE’s face as a reminder, for the rest of her life?
    Cat: I have no personal knowledge, but would think she ripped her shirt open, as she’s probably had a double mastectomy and was feeling just a bit undesirable, vulnerable, and furious over the cheating/scandal/baby uproar.

  49. nj says:

    @Peach- well said!

    My heart goes out to her. Ill cut her a ton of slack and more. I’ve seen cancer up close. It is a nightmare, and those who have never been up close to it have absolutlely no idea what they are talking about. And I know this because once I was one of them. Cancer was just another disease. Well, needless to say, I know better now. It is a horror, and to have all this other stuff? And have those two little children she knows she has to leave behind with their piece-of-excrement dad? And the worry about her older daughter, who is probably just shattered over this?
    This illness tests the strength of even the best families. EE doesn’t even have that, just the pieces of what used to be. If she is angry, crazy, vengeful, irrational, innappropriate- so be it. She’s a refined lady compared to the state I would be in. I pray for a miracle for her.

  50. Len says:

    I know I shoudn’t say this, but sometimes I wonder if Elizabeth really has terminal cancer..a terrible thought, I know.

  51. CandyKay says:

    I disagree with Ally. I think the villian here is John Edwards – and in the Clinton case, it was Bill Clinton. It’s not the journalists who cover them.

    By the way, there’s plenty of good material available about “the financial mess and wars we’re in.” Turn off the TV and read a serious magazine. You’re in charge, not the anchors at CNN or FoxNews.

  52. Lita says:

    Huzzah and high five CandyKay; just because we read celeb gossip doesn’t mean we shall read nothing else.

  53. Maritza says:

    I believe Elizabeth knows she doesn’t have much time left on this earth so why would she want to spend her time getting divorced? It’s logical that she would want to have her family together during her last years of life.

  54. thepickle says:

    “Do-gooders” always fall the hardest. Those who climb upon the backs of others, proclaiming they are models of biblical values who have come to serve us, that is POLITICIANS, always seem to dramatically find that they are not god’s chosen after all. The rest of us, quietly help one another through-out our daily life, accept the fact that a perfect godly life is an illusion, and would find making money off a book deal disgusting. They deserve each other.

  55. Goddess711 says:

    @CB – Why? Why make it easy for him and Rielle? If they need to eff around, make ’em work for it. The more they get caught, the smarmier he looks. He needs his gravy train yanked off the tracks before Elizabeth divorces him. She knows what she’s doing, sometimes not giving that divorce is the sweetest revenge.
    Plus, who needs the double whammy of divorce and cancer going on at the same time? One will cost her her life, the other will just cost her. Definitely stay in that game. If he were going to hand over 300mill like Tiger to Elin, it might be worth it for Elizabeth. It’s not like the Rielle thing is LOVE, it’s competitive delusion. He can’t even man up to any of it, he tried to get his own staff to take the heat for him and ordered DNA tests on the baby. And Rielle is still around? Gimme a break. THAT is crazy!

  56. Ally says:

    @CandyKay, I probably read more newspapers and newsmagazines than you and Sarah Palin combined.

    If Chris Matthews or Andrea Mitchell or any of the Fox goons want to call their shows “Washington Entertainment Tonight”, fine, then report on irrelevant crap like this. If on the other hand you parade around claiming to be serious journalists, perform your service to the country by reporting on things that matter and that need explaining and exposing. (For example, it would have been nice to see more reporting on the mortgage derivatives market BEFORE that caved in, rather than after.)

    Gossip is fine in its place; I resent its being laundered into “news” by shallow media celebrities who otherwise pretend to be the Woodward and Bernstein of the TV pundit set.

    Btw, Edwards quit his campaign and has not run again for elected office. Mark Sanford and John Ensign on the other hand, still refuse to quit after their delinquency on the job/bribery + cheating on the wife scandals. Since they’re still in elected office, let’s spread the D.C. gossip joy around here on this gossip site (not a News program, see?) by talking about their dirty laundry. And those two did run on a my-traditional-family-is-holier-than-thine platform.

  57. Cpm says:

    This is relevant because he was almost vice-president and a leading candidate for the democrat presidential nomination. Maybe if you guys would actually look a little more closely at the people you vote for we wouldn’t be burdened with the empty suits we have now. Take your blinders off and take a look around.

  58. Ally says:

    If fidelity and traditional-family bragging is a central element of his campaign, it’s relevant. Edwards, on the other hand, campaigned on promises to help poor and working people.

    It’s stupid that infidelity is still the one DOA offense for politicians, while corruption (e.g. passing legislation then taking a job with the company it benefited to the tune of billions of taxpayer money) and betrayal of explicit campaign promises — far more serious crimes and/or betrayals of the voters, go ignored and unpunished, even by the supposed vigiliant Washington press corps. (But did you hear about Elizabeth Edwards maybe ripping her shirt open years ago? Let’s use up airtime on that.)

    By contrast, affairs are relevant for people like John Ensign and Mark Sanford who build political careers on lecturing “immoral” liberals and won’t let gays make a legal commitment to each other, while they skank around on their traditional marriage, as well as make affair trips on taxpayer dime and time (Sanford), or lobby illegally on behalf of their mistress’s husband who they also illegally helped get a job (Ensign). And don’t even have the decency to resign like Edwards.

    Moreover, justifiably, no one has thrown stones at Mrs. Sanford or Mrs. Ensign because of what their husbands did. So don’t do it at Mrs. Edwards either.

  59. Cpm says:

    What about diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars of hush money to his baby momma and trying to get a staffer to cop to paternity of his kid?
    Don’t use the word decency in any sentence with John Edwards, ‘the Breck Girl’. Hypocrisy isn’t a crime. You can’t even address what the story is about, you have to deflect all criticism by saying ‘well look at these guys’. Marginal figures at best. Edwards was on a much bigger stage with much bigger stakes. Deal with that.

  60. fairweather says:

    Reactions from women as victims of infidelity from Elizabeth’s era, particularly in the south, are very typical as what has been detailed in the excerpt. Would they have preferred she just sat there and took this? Look at the expression on Rielle’s face as she arrives to go before the grand jury, what is the smirk about? She’s enjoying the publicity and the spotlight obviously. I think any long-standing wife/partner would rail in the face of his choice of such an obvious slut. If she divorced him it would be even more stress plus it would guarantee Rielle would make a grab for all of his assets or to deprive his other children in ways we can only imagine. To stay in the marriage is perhaps the harder path but it is Elizabeth’s choice and my only hope is that the oldest daughter will raise the remaining younger children if and when Elizabeth is no longer here. BTW, his brains are obviously inferior as is his maturity, what fool carries on an affair out in the open like this??? Expecting not for anyone to notice??

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