For more than two years after Rielle Hunter emerged at the center of the John Edwards love-child scandal, the former campaign videographer kept quiet — while Edwards denied fathering her daughter (before finally acknowledging it); while Elizabeth Edwards wrote a book describing her as an aggressive homewrecker; while campaign aide Andrew Young wrote one describing her as a loony, needy loose cannon.
Now, though, she’s talking, in an extensive new GQ interview obtained by The Washington Post.
Hunter says she’s still in love with “Johnny” and believes he loves her. That they went to bed together the day they met. That his marriage was “toxic,” that he feared “the wrath of Elizabeth.” That it was Young’s idea for the coverup in which he claimed paternity. That she had no idea how much money — now the subject of a grand jury inquiry — was being funneled to her from top campaign donors.
Elizabeth Edwards, who has separated from her husband, did not respond to a request for comment. Lawyers for John Edwards did not return e-mails for comment — but in the interview, Hunter says that he is “supportive of me talking now.”
And are they exes now? Hunter says their relationship “evolved into something different.”
