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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Rielle Hunter is such a loser! Same with John. Gross.
What a Kanye West thing to say.
Rielle, you're not winning any brownie points by attacking Elizabeth! Her husband cheated on her with you! She was entitled to a little accusing and guilt tripping John.
Or she put it up as a reminder never to trust the scoundrel again, or fall for his b.s. in a moment of weakness. Rielle is a piece of work, I don't mean Picasso either!
People who have been betrayed are capable of doing all sorts of crazy things. Taunting John with a screen saver seems sort of lame, compared to some of the things other women do. As far as I am concerned, that's not a big deal, you go girl. Not only did he have a baby with a younger, more attractive woman, the whole world found out, not just Elizabeth and a few other people--what humiliation. That she showed as much restraint as she did speaks volumes. All I can say about Rielle, is that she has taken this as far as she can. The book will probably be the last dollars she can milk from the whole thing. And John? He would have been a terrible president and would make incredibly bad decisions. Just look at him now, still hanging around and sleeping with the woman who wrecked his life (not that he didn't have something to do with it).
Rachelle, I was going to say that, too. I did the same thing after a very painful break up. I was left pregnant and alone. I had a collage of my ex and his new girlfriend that I would look at to remind me of what he did and to not go back there. It wasn't my screensaver, though.
@dynomitesmall, its the Narcissistic in Rielle that thinks it was about HER! Sick sick sick, woman! I am not saying I would torture myself with a screen saver either, but I would rather believe it was a way to keep her backbone up while dying, knowing she was leaving her children behind with this jackwad!
I generally agree with the "if he'll do it with you, he'll do it to you" rule; however, I cheated on my first husband (horrible, I know) with my current husband, but I would never cheat on my current husband.. EVER!