Rielle Hunter's new tell-all What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me has a long list of seedy revelations: sneaking into his hotel room, paparazzi chases, his relationship with their love child.
Though the most sad and shocking tidbit from the bio is that Elizabeth Edwards kept a picture of John and Rielle as her screensaver.
In an excerpt printed in People Magazine, she described how Edwards' cancer-stricken wife first reacted to news of the affair.
Elizabeth requested all the tapes (I’d made of the campaign). She locked herself in a room to watch. On one tape she saw Johnny walking into a room and his reaction to seeing me. She apparently told him that he never once looked at her the way he looked at me. So she took that bit and put it on her computer as a screen saver in order to watch it over and over again.
The poor woman probably thought she was tormenting her cheating husband, using the image as a painful reminder of his foolish, political career-killing indiscretion. But in an attempt to punish John, Elizabeth was ultimately just tormenting herself.
I can't imagine she didn't bristle every time the image popped onto the screen. No doubt she was in agony over her marriage crumbling and the public humiliation. Wouldn't a move like this only dig the knife in deeper.
And I am sure Elizabeth is rolling her eyes from the great beyond about Rielle's lingering feelings for the ex-Senator: “I’m still in love with John,” she wrote. “That didn’t go away, shockingly enough. Marriage? I have no idea. I’m not a big fan of the institution, but never say never.”
Well Rielle, I just have one bit of advice for you, compliments of my Granny Ethel Mae: If he'll do it with you, he'll do it to you!
Are you shocked Elizabeth Edwards used an image of her husband and his mistress as a screensaver?
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I'm pretty much taking anything and everything that comes out of her mouth with a HUGE grain of salt.
Funny how she can attack someone who can no longer defend herself.
I don't believe it.
That's exactly right!
I wish I could say I'm shocked that John Edwards chooses to stay with someone who disrespects the mother of 3 of his 4 living children this way, and even more shocked that he is with someone who disrespects the mother of his deceased son this way, but I'm not. John Edwards is scum, and Rielle Hunter is scum as well. Maybe Elizabeth Edwards wasn't a saint- I'm not but that doesn't mean my husband should cheat on me. Maybe she didn't leave him because they have young kids together and she knew she was dying. Had they divorced her two younger children might have never forgiven their father, and he is their only living parent.
These poor children. His and theirs. They're screwed. What kind of moral upbringing have any of them had? May Elizabeth rest in peace.
Man she will say anything to convince herself he loved her. If he was crazy about her as much as she makes it sound he would be with her right now. This woman is seeking attention and it is gross, especially since Elizabeth can't defend herself anymore.
Alright, Rielle. We get it. We all know you were John's sidepiece and you had to have a baby to cement the "relationship" (read: get paid). Now the baby is here, and you realize you gotta try to publicly craft some sort of love story for the kid's sake, so that when she's older she has some fairy tale bull$hit account of her conception "Your father and I loved each other very much...". But you need to lay off Elizabeth. Its bad form to demonize a dead woman. Oh, and when your kid grows up and has a husband of her own- this piece of crap book will still be around serving as an indictment of your character. That kid's gonna judge you harshly...