Unlike the other weeklies’ obsession with all things Uncool Bermuda Triangle, People magazine decided to run with Elizabeth Edwards for their cover this week. The whole thing – I would assume, since People hasn’t released their cover story online – is that Elizabeth is going to admit that she and John are pretty much split up, especially now that John has finally publicly admitted that Rielle Hunter’s daughter is his. So, Elizabeth has reached her “breaking point” and “finally sends him packing”. Eh.
Meanwhile, the National Enquirer continues to be all over this story. They reported yesterday that John Edwards was being a cheapskate about paying for daughter Quinn’s medical care, and there continue to be rumors about that John-and-Rielle sex tape. And now today they released a story about Elizabeth Edwards’ “suicide attempt”. Although, not really, she was just thinking about taking an overdose of pills when she heard about John‘s affair, which I can kind of understand. I mean, I can understand thinking about it, I am in no way advocating suicide, for goodness sake. Here’s more:
“I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF!” John Edwards’ distraught wife Elizabeth screamed those horrifying words during a suicide attempt after finding out her husband’s mistress was pregnant with his love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Pushed to the brink by the disgraced two time presidential loser’s cheating, lying and cover-up, the long-suffering breast cancer patient was finally shoved over the edge when she learned that campaign “worker” Rielle Hunter was carrying the ex-senator’s baby.
In the latest shocking revelation from the Edwards scandal, sources disclosed to The ENQUIRER behind-the-scenes details of the hushed-up 2007 incident – breaking their silence after Edwards on Jan. 21 finally confirmed the paternity of his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn.
After impregnating Rielle, the ex-senator concocted a bizarre cover-up involving Andrew Young, a trusted campaign aide who falsely claimed to be the father. A very convenient patsy, say political insiders.
And now Young has revealed this heart-wrenching confrontation in his tell-all book The Politician. But when Elizabeth learned the truth, she felt “completely betrayed,” disclosed an insider. She was so upset she became suicidal, say sources close to the couple.
“Elizabeth locked herself in their bedroom and shouted at John from behind the door, ‘I’m going to kill myself!'” disclosed a friend. “She added: ‘It’s ALL your fault!’
“Elizabeth later confessed she was going to swallow an overdose of painkillers to end her tortured life. She apparently ran to the medicine cabinet and emptied some pill bottles in a fury. She confessed that she actually had a handful of pills in her hand and was about to ingest them when she suddenly broke down in tears.”
The heart-wrenching suicide attempt was the climax of several painful blows inflicted by Edwards on his gravely ill wife – who had considered taking her life in the past, say insiders.
“Elizabeth once confessed that she first thought about suicide after John initially told her he cheated with Rielle,” the close source divulged. “Elizabeth said her cancer was killing her slowly, but John had broken her heart beyond repair.”
[From The National Enquirer]
For a while now, I’ve had very mixed feelings about Elizabeth. I didn’t care for the way she handled John’s affair initially, when she was basically giving John a free pass in public, while bashing Rielle Hunter as “pathetic” and giving the impression that she (Elizabeth) put most of the blame of the affair on Rielle. Now… I still have mixed feelings about all of that, but I do still have sympathy for Elizabeth. She’s been having a horrible few years, and she doesn’t have much time left. I think she’s just now realizing what a piece of sh-t she was married to all of these years, and she doesn’t really know what to do.
People cover courtesy of CoverAwards.
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Basically, I think your sympathy is misplaced, Kaiser.
I mean, yes, of course aspects of her situation deserve sympathy, such as the loss of a child and cancer.
But she was perfectly willing to perpetrate a complete and utter fraud on the voters in return for power—power that she knew her husband was unworthy of possessing.
The ramifications of her deceipt are incalculable. Finally, campaign aides were driven to planning to sabotage the campaign as they realized John and Elizabeth were corrupt to the core.
She needs to dump this scumbag and enjoy whatever time she has left with her children in peace. And take him for every cent.
John was a jerk anyway
I’m with Tess on this one. She knew what was going on and ignored it just as long as her husband was heading for bigger and better things. Now that he is done politically and the cat (or baby) was out of the bag publically, she’s done? Sorry, I’ll save my sympathy for the Haitians who literally have nothing.
Reports say she knew about the affair while John was still campaigning for president so she knows a thing or two about lying to people & being deceitful. As a woman I was on her side & to a degree felt the pain that John & Rielle inflicted on her but she ceased to be a victim the moment she attempted to hide it for the sake of being the first lady. I do hope she kicked his sorry arse out!
The same thing happened to me in 1976: I helped pack his bags. I didn’t have a husband but I had my self-respect. I am glad Elizabeth has resurrected hers.
I feel bad for everything she’s been through and continues to go through, but have to agree about her keeping the secret during his campaign.
I have made my opinion clear on what I think of John Edwards. He is basically a piece of decayed dog sh*t wrapped in a Tiffany’s box. But I feel the need to say that Rielle Hunter is a astoundingly horrible and shameless excuse for a human being. Because John is such a bastard it is easy to pass over Rielle’ role in this sh*tstorm. She just disgusts me and I feel so bad for that little girl.
I can’t blaim for not bashing John because at the end of the day they have children together and Is not good for their young children to see their mother talking bad about their father even when he deserves it. Thats parenting 101 , the kids are all enough to hear things about their father and they are getting enough of it by the press they don’t need to hear it from their mother too.
When she dies does he automatically get custody?
Whoopi on The View today, said that life really is too short for this woman to deal with his foolishness.
Cheating is terrible, but cancer is worse. Surely any of you can understand that, still facing that prematurely life-ending threat, it was harder for a wife to do without her husband’s emotional support, and to break up the family, than to yell at him about his affair in private.
I think there are times, even with privileged celebrities, when it’s more important to understand our fellow human beings and feel compassion, than to throw rocks because everyone involved didn’t act like saints.
also with tess. parts of her life draw sympathy, but by most accounts this couple – both of them – have been completely insane abusive wackjobs from the get.
How very sad I am for Elizabeth and the children. People who do not have the basic compassion to be sad for anyone who has such a public loss may not have been through enough pain and humiliation to develop true sensitivity for the plight of others be it a natural disaster or private pain made public so I feel sorry for them as well. I do feel a bit cynical about the claims made by campaign aides that they were ready to “sabotage the campaign” we have no evidence of this and certainly they didn’t do it when they found out so who knows really? I am glad she felt able to make this painful decision and take what time she has left to enjoy her life, her children and the satisfaction of knowing she made up her own mind in her own time. I hope she and the children manage to get some peace and normalcy in their lives soon.
He really took Elizabeth to the depths. How sad that a worthless cad like John Edwards would cause a woman to consider suicide and leaving her kids early. Ugh. Did she really love him that much, or was the humiliation simply unbearable?
Maybe John Edwards still has something going with Reille Hunter. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He bought her a really nice house, and she was willing to move to live near him.
If Rielle wanted to cut her ties with him, she would have stayed in California. If Edwards didn’t care about her, he wouldn’t have bought her such an expensive house.
If you want a balanced article about Elizabeth Edwards check out this column by Jennifer Palmieri for the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012102178.html
John’s an a@@hole but Elizabeth lost my support during an interview just after the baby was born in which she called the baby “it” as in “it doesn’t look like any of my children” (paraphrasing) instead of “she” since she knew the sex of the child. It’s not the kid’s fault. And I suspect that, in fact, Elizabeth knew damn well it was her husband’s child otherwise she wouldn’t have had a look on her face when talking about her as if she had a piece of shit stuck on her upper lip. All losers, all around.
How sad it is that a woman her age would make a suicide threat? Kind of tells you that cancer (or other losses) doesn’t make a stable person out of you. It all depends on who you are. So I do have pity for her life circumstances, but not for the ones she contributed to create (such as, the breakdown of her marriage).
Calling John Edwards a “cad” is being charitable.
The man is a sociopath.
It’s chilling to think this monster was nearly VP.
So this is panning out just how I expected it to a la Princess Diana/Prince Charles & Camilla. And add me to the ones who also feels John still has a romantic relationship going on with Rielle. I would almost bet that those two will either move in or marry each other once Elizabeth has passed.
Elizabeth seems to have gotten a bum deal…I mean to put up and go along with all of that for so long and now SHe ends up the one having cancer a probably not much time left… and THIS is how her last memories of her husband will be? That’s sad, and I wouldn’t wish that on an enemy.
It is always sad when these things get played out in the public eye. I for one don’t believe that there is ever a clear cut and concrete line between who is the victim and who is the victimizer in a relationship. I’m sure the dynamics of their relationship are complex and that in some deep ways that we as observers will never understand, they are both reaping what they have sown from many choices they have made along the way. That being said, I truly do have compassion for the pain involved and for the array of people who are and will continue to be affected by this chain of events. He made some really dumb moves and hopefully will grow from them..and stay out of public office because of them!!
I wish Elizabeth Edwards and her children nothing but the best. She tried her absolute best to play the role of a “good southern politician’s wife”. Elizabeth was not born with Jenny Sanford’s wealth and she was doing whatever she felt was in the best interest of her children. No woman wants to accept such public humiliation and betrayal. Considering the state of her health, she fought a good fight and now it’s time for her to end a very painful chapter in her family’s life. May GOD bless her!
I’m with Tess…
I hope this is the first step for her to a more positive mental state. It’s bad enough having to battle a life threatening disease without being suicidal. Positivity and mental outlook enter greatly into the prognosis. That being said, I can not for the life of me understand why, when she has children to consider, she would threaten to take her own life, leaving them to be exploited by this man.
Elizabeth, Oh My God, you look beautiful!! Getting rid of that two timing dirt bag seems to be doing you alot of good!! I am a life long Democrat, and I feel nothing but shame for your husband in trying to pull the wool over all our eyes… May God Bless You and Give You the Strength to kill every single cancer cell in your body.. Be strong. We are all on your side!!!!