Rielle Hunter Memoir Offers Explicit Details of Edwards Affair

June 20, 2012 Politix

Rielle Hunter’s tell-all memoir, 'What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me,” describes in detail her sex life with the former presidential candidate.

Rielle Hunter Memoir Offers Explicit Details of Edwards Affair
Hunter especially highlights the “extraordinary,” sleepless night that she “surrendered” to Edwards -- just hours after meeting him at a reception in a New York City hotel.
 
Rielle also doesn’t apologize for breaking up Edwards’ 32-year marriage, even though wife Elizabeth was battling breast cancer as news of her husband's affair and their love child became known. Elizabeth succumbed to the disease in December 2010.
 
In an interview on “20/20,” airing Friday, Hunter told Chris Cuomo, “First and foremost, I’m a mom. I’m also a woman who fell in love with a married a man. I’m not the first woman who has done that and I won’t be the last.”
 
Watch the clip.

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Rielle also revealed to People.com she is still with Edwards. "We're still together as a couple." Though she won't predict their future. "Marriage? Have no idea. I'm not a big fan of the institution but never say never."

Watch Hunter’s interview on "20/20," Friday at 10:00 PM on ABC.

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meredithg gresham
328 days ago

all i can say is , reille will meet her match someday, she will be hurt like mrs. edwards was hurt , she needs to fill some of pain that elizabeth went through before she died.

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meredithg gresham
328 days ago

at last she has come forward and made an apology after she destroyed his mariage, his home and of course john. She should be ashamed of everything that she has ever done to this family, and I wonder whom or who will be her next victim.

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meredithg gresham
328 days ago

I think that reille secuded john and let him into her private world. She was the black widow and of course john was the fly.

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meredithg gresham
328 days ago

I think that reille seduced john and lured him into her spider web. She was the black widow and John was the spider.

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Dent
330 days ago

Your just a pig!!!

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HannaW
334 days ago

I should not be surprised she would be explicit about the affair. However, you would think a woman of her age would know that that type of information does not set the record straight, as she claims she wants to do, but shows she is simply self absorbed and wants people to know much more than most people want to know. All she has done is not only hurt her child, but the children of Elizabeth Edwards and his parents! How pathetic to do this to a woman who is no long here. I guess that makes it easier. How was this man so easy to believe that he could be President of the United States?

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Barbara West
334 days ago

I really wish the news media would QUIT giving this piece of trash any air time.I LIKE the way Chris hadled her..he wasn't all that warm and fuzzy but I would really prefer to never hear anything more about her..she isn't worth the time it takes to read a clip.

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Rob
337 days ago

It's like Oscar Wilde said 'A man that marry's his mistress leaves a vacancy in that postion.'

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