Posted on 08/13/2008 7:08:29 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Elizabeth Edwards' decision not to leave her husband after he confessed to an affair was hastened by the discovery of her cancer recurrence just months after the revelation, her brother and a friend told People magazine.
"She couldn't say, 'Well, maybe we'll work through this for years, or maybe we should separate for two years,"' said Hargrave McElroy, a friend, told the magazine for its Aug. 25 issue. "(The cancer) forced her to choose whether to move forward."
Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, admitted last week to having a short affair in 2006 with a filmmaker named Rielle Hunter, who was hired that year to produce short videos for his political action committee. The former North Carolina senator denied he was the father of Hunter's five-month old daughter, and offered to take a paternity test to prove it.
Through her attorney, Hunter rejected the idea of such a test and said she has no intention to speak publicly about the affair. Through a spokeswoman, both John and Elizabeth Edwards declined a request for an interview Wednesday.
Edwards has said he both ended the affair and told Elizabeth about his infidelity in 2006. He kicked off his second bid for the White House in New Orleans a few days after Christmas, at an event that Hunter attended and Elizabeth did not.
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“Hunter rejected the idea of such a test and said she has no intention to speak publicly about the affair.”
Right...I bet she’d “speak publicly” about it quick enough if he turned the hush-money tap off.
Just what someone fighting advanced cancer needs to have to deal with. Stress is so bad for someone with cancer.
Edwards is a craven narcisist. God will judge him and find him wanting
Well, Imagine that!!!
I can hardly wait to read the big fat tell-all book that’s gonna get written about this affair.
Yeah right. I’m still not convinced she had a recurrence of cancer. She looks too healthy (read: chunky) here a year or more after their announcement that the terminal cancer had returned.
That.......... is the beauty of FR...
No need to read books by Edwards and his cronies.....
(sarc noted..)
;-)
Searching..........
A special place in hell for someone like the Breckinator...
Fist she had to deal with the anguish her husband caused. Then, months later, the cancer returns. Maybe the cancer would have returned anyway but the added stress could not help matters.
“Maybe the cancer would have returned anyway but the added stress could not help matters.”
That is so true, no one will ever know but I couldn’t live with thinking I could have caused additional harm that way.
TWO YEARS, this has gone on.
TWO YEARS, of media colusion.
TWO YEARS, of lies to the public.
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That, to me, is the really big story.
As I wrote earlier this week, I have no sympathy for Elizabeth. A liberal woman who hitched her wagon to a scum-sucking shyster lawyer. A guy who was smarmy and untrustworthy to begin with, and then helped try to cover this up.
No sympathy for her about this. I do feel bad she has cancer that will probably kill her. But not about her husband’s affair at all.
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