Aug 11, 2008 1:25 pm US/Central
Trash-Talk: Edwards' Ex-Mistress Disses Elizabeth
Hunter: 'Someday Truth About Her Is Going To Come Out'
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CBS) ―
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A split-screen of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.
CBS
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards didn't have very nice things to say about the Democrat's cancer-stricken wife.
Rielle Hunter made the indiscreet comments to a reporter on the campaign trail.
Back in 2006, while Hunter was producing videos for the Edwards campaign, she apparently trashed Elizabeth Edwards to a Newsweek reporter.
"[Elizabeth] does not give off good energy," Hunter said. "I've only met her once. She didn't make eye contact with me."
A few weeks later, after the reporter had written a small story about Edwards hiring a woman he had met in a bar, the reporter ran into Hunter again.
She had been fired, and blamed Elizabeth.
"Someday the truth about her is going to come out," the reporter quotes Hunter as saying.
Over the weekend, Hunter says she would not submit to a paternity test on her baby daughter – a child Edwards insists is not his.
"I know that it's not possible that this child could be mine," Edwards said.
Whether or not the baby is his, Edwards has lost many of his supporters, even those in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
"I was disappointed, very disappointed," Lee Harris said.
"I mean, I'm disgusted, I'm disappointed," political commentator Barlow Herget said. "I'm doggone angry."
Edwards will now sit out the Democratic National Convention, but he and his wife are still expected to make an appearance at Salem State College in Massachusetts.
A school spokesman says the couple is coming to speak about Elizabeth's battle with cancer, and the school does not want to get involved in "moral issues."
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