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‘I Thought I Could Help Him’: Rielle Hunter Explains Why She Had an Affair With John Edwards

Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:14pm by Erica Ritz
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ABCs Chris Cuomo Interviews Rielle Hunter on What Really Happened with John Edwards

(Photos: AP)

ABC recently had an exclusive interview with Rielle Hunter, the woman who had an affair with John Edwards while his wife was dying of breast cancer and while he was seeking the presidency.

It was her first since Edwards’ acquittal for accepting illegal campaign contributions, according to the New York Daily News, and no doubt timed to build anticipation for book release Tuesday.

Here is the preview of the interview, if you can only handle Hunter’s smirk for two or three minutes:

“I’m [a] woman who fell in love with a married man. I’m not the first woman, and I am not going to be the last, but that’s what happened.”

When asked whether she regrets falling in love with a married man, Hunter replied: “I don’t regret falling in love, and I don’t regret loving him, nor do I regret our daughter.” She does, however, have regrets about “how it was handled.”

At around 4:10, Cuomo says: “He invites you to a hotel room, usually a situation that you avoid when it’s a married man, fair point?”

“Yes…I went there because I believed I could help him,” Hunter explained, laughing. He was just a guy she called “Johnny,” she explained, not a presidential candidate.

Watch the rest of the distasteful interview– which includes the phrase “intensity like a rock concert”– via ABC:

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Comments (74)

watashbuddyfriend
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 7:24am
Rielle, I know it was good therapy for him going in, but, as I point out on my Bible Doctrine website, when it comes out, the aftereffect is the pain of life, following the end! The Sin, unwanted child, on-and-on. Your sins will find you out: Numbers 32-23.
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- db321
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 4:31pm
  So when the Bible says that Judgement is mine, says the Lord! The Bible even tells us that we will see Gods judgement with our own eyes and with our own ears. Yea, God does judge even if you don’t get caught.
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- girlnurse
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 8:02pm
  Difference between “reaping what you sow” and Gods coming judgement.
  Even Christians have to reap what we sow in this life and live with the consequences of our actions..but if we finish the race we will one day see God and He wont be our judge—He will be our Father!:)….Comfort each other with that….
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teddrunk
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 7:09am
Like so many women, her plan was to earn money on her back. They’ve been doing that since time began.
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- Hickory
  Posted on June 25, 2012 at 11:45am
  We have a word for that………………….
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RightPolitically
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 6:56am
She’s a tramp, from a long line of tramps!
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Thedadde
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 5:28am
Who is this? Bill Clinton? in drag? Teddy Kennedy? I’ve seen this somewhere before.
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cookcountypatriot
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 4:42am
how lucky are we that edwards was stupid enough to pick this half wit…they exposed each other for the morally bankrupt sleaze they are…i thought i could help him…what an arrogant tramp…now that poor child will grow up knowing mommy and daddy are sleaze bags…
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Diane TX
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 3:16am
Glad to see the lack of interest in this woman’s (who has no morals at all) story.
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- burnteye86
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 5:59am
  She’s just trying to play the victim card now.
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- woodyb
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 6:15pm
  BURNTEYE — don’t forget, she is trying to sell a book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BlazeGlory
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 2:43am
Call me (crazy) maybe.
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AmericanPatriot
Posted on June 24, 2012 at 2:31am
I just feel badly for the child. With those two self-centered people as parents, where does the child fit in?
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- Choctaw25
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 8:24am
  To grow up to be “The Chairwoman of the Democrat Party”, thats where.
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:42pm
…
In my opinion, Rielle Hunter only wanted to help herself.
Help herself to a terminally ill woman’s rich husband.
What a skank. Hope her book is an epic fail.
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- shagstar
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 12:10am
  these libs are beyond help anymore! what an infestation of cockroaches America has on it’s hands!
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- ericthebarbaric
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 2:01am
  Like duh? This bitch is like my step mother Mimi Callender Johnson. Goldigger all the way!
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Batjak456
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:37pm
HA!

“West Side Story”
MARIA
“I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and bright
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me today
I feel charming
Oh so charming
It’s alarming how charming I feel
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I’m real
See the pretty girl in that mirror there?
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face
Such a pretty dress
Such a pretty smile
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing
Feel like running
And dancing for joy
For I’m loved
By a pretty wonderful boy”

HA!

BATJAK456

ALL GAVE SOME
SOME GAVE ALL
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- RedDirtTexas
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 8:09am
  Hey Bat! When you’re a Jet, your a Jet all the way, from you’re first cigarette ’till you’re last dying day… but I still don’t get your point!
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Larry E
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:17pm
What a disgusting sleaze, she’s a perfect match for John Boy Edwards.
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- MRMANN
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 4:41am
  Knock-knock—anyone home? Such vacant eyes, perfect for Johnney,
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barber2
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:04pm
Oh, please. Go away “ Raylene ” and take your tastelessness with you. ( She and John were made for one another. ) The poor innocent child.
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lukerw
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:01pm
So… how many people has Rielle… HELPED?
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- CatB
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:19pm
  Well she did save the country from John Edwards .. but we got another narcissist instead … Obummer.
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- lukerw
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 2:18am
  @CATB
  I lived through JFK… so I would have preferred Edwards to Obama :)
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- CatB
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 5:18am
  @LUKERW
  
  JFK would be a Republican compared to what the Dems have become since he was Prez . .he cut taxes and was strong on national defense.
  
  btw .. on a personal note .. my cousin was in the Secret Service during JFK and liked him on a personal level … JFK was not arrogant at all to the “staff” he knew the agents and would ask about their children .. I can’t imagine Obama doing that! OR Edwards.
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- teddrunk
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 7:42am
  If this woman was “doing it” with JFK back in the day, Bobby would of made sure she spoke to no one about it, permanently.
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65Mustang
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:54pm
This is the woman that is depicted in Proverbs 5:3-5, she is a card-carrying member of the “sisterhood of the adulterous ho’s”…see this woman for what she is and do not confuse her the woman of Proverbs 31.
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BlazeGlory
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:48pm
What she actually did was help us by causing an immoral candidate to be eliminated from the process.
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- barber2
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:06pm
  thank you for thinking of something positive about this whole tabloid / media / political mess !
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- CatB
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:20pm
  Thanks to the National Enquirer also .. remember the MSM ignored the story even after they broke it .. until they couldn’t anymore.
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- marcus_arealius
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Let’s hope it stays that way. Somehow the public forgets everything except Watergate. I’ve suspected home versions of Electro-convulsive ECT therapy are mandatory appliances for liberal homes.
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- Dale
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 12:42am
  CatB;
  
  “Thanks to the National Enquirer also .. remember the MSM ignored the story even after they broke it .. until they couldn’t anymore.”
  
  Same story with Fast and Furious. Do I detect a pattern?
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 1:48am
  Blaze glory …..great point !
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- LAWDOGG
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 1:49am
  Call me crazy, but isn’t it a prerequisite to be morally bankrupt in order to be a SUCCESSFUL politician?
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Tri-ox
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:47pm
Nasty.
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MrButcher
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:46pm
and you thought wrong.

or maybe not…

…the lost of Edwards was a terrible blow to the Left.

Good on that.
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- lassiegirldawn
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 1:39am
  Blow being key word.
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 5:12am
  LOL, LassieGirl!
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crackerone
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:35pm
I went there because I believed I could help him………………..unzip his pants, Hunter explained.
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KangarooJack
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:31pm
She is a skank…that is why she enjoyed the rock concert. Honestly?! I think she said that because she wants to keep herself in his ‘good graces’. Twit-skank-but I stop at the C word.
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Tankertony
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:30pm
Oh, you helped him alright. For very brief, climactic moments.
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jujubeebee
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:27pm
She has had her two minutes of fame and enough of Bunny Mellon’s money. Put her back in the closet and don’t waste journalism space or time on this person.
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nolefan2
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:24pm
She should respected Elizabeth Edwards enough to forgo a relationship with John Edwards until after Elizabeth was gone. What kind of woman commits adultery with a man whose wife has a terminal illness? It starts with a W, ends with an E and has HOR in between. What goes around comes around and the day may come when he cheats on Rielle. Both of these dirtbags deserve each other. The only one I feel sorry for is the the little baby.
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- lassiegirldawn
  Posted on June 24, 2012 at 1:42am
  Isn’t is called a whore
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Psychosis
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:21pm
yep

about as shallow as a kiddie pool
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dealer@678
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:20pm
That tramp isnt aging well
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- Whiskey_Tango
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:40pm
  Yeah, John looks rough.
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- copatriots
  Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:44pm
  Did you mean Rielle or John? :-) It’s tough to tell which of them is worse.
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MeteoricLimbo
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 10:19pm
vamp
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