John Edwards Admits Past Affair with Rielle Hunter; Denies Love Child is His

Posted at August 9, 2008 | No Comments

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted having an affair with Rielle Hunter even as his wife battled cancer.

He denies fathering her daughter, as has been widely speculated.

John Edwards told ABC News that he “lied repeatedly” about the affair with “a 42-year-old woman” but said that he didn’t love her.

He has not taken a paternity test but “knows he isn’t the father” of her love child because of the timing of the affair and the birth.
Rielle Hunter’s daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born February 27, 2008. The birth certificate filed in California lists no father’s name.

A former Edwards staffer, Andrew Young, claims he is the father (on a side note, Young, like Edwards, is married and has three children).

The 2004 Democratic nominee for Vice President, Edwards was a top contender for the party’s presidential nomination this year, pursuing his party’s nod even after announcing that his wife, Elizabeth, had a deadly form of cancer.

In 2006, John Edwards’ political action committee paid $114,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter.