Rielle Hunter Still Loves John Edwards and hopes they’ll be together forever at some point

(HMG) – John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter, has given a very long interview to GQ magazine. In it the vixen videographer says she’s still in love with “Johnny,” his marriage was “toxic,” and Edwards feared “the wrath of Elizabeth.”  Contrary to various accounts of their affair, Hunter, 45, told the magazine she met the former North Carolina senator on the corner of 61st Street and Park Avenue in February 2006, and did not pick him up at a bar.  Hunter’s first words to Edwards were “You’re so hot” and they slept together that very first night. On meeting in his hotel room, she says, “I. Was. Terrified… You know, it was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced.” Edwards prophetically told Hunter after the sexual tryst at Manhattan’s Regency hotel in February 2006, “Falling in love with you could really f- – - up my plans for becoming president.”

To keep their affair secret from his wife, Hunter bought a second cellphone for Edwards — identical to his regular one — for her to call him on. She said Elizabeth Edwards, 60, learned of the relationship after discovering the second phone and dialing the last number called.

“I answered the phone and said, ‘Hey, baby,’ ” Hunter said. “And, click. And then [Elizabeth] confronted him and confronted him, and he finally confessed.”

Hunter said she learned she was pregnant in July 2007, and that Edwards also knew, even before he and his wife publicly renewed their vows.  The then-presidential candidate hoped Hunter, pregnant with his child, would get an abortion. Edwards was scared to death of his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, fearing if she knew the truth, “he would be pummeled.” She denies knowing how much money was being spent on her, or that it came from donors. When Edwards denied he was the baby’s father in interviews and his aide Andrew Young came forward to claim paternity, Hunter said she was heartbroken but understood.  Edwards “was traumatized,” she said. “Because he had been living a life that was now exposed. A hidden life, when it is exposed, is a traumatic event for the person going through it. And they’re not in their right mind.”
She said Young was willing to take the fall for Edwards because “Andrew was in love with Johnny, more than his own wife.  She refused to talk about the purported sex tape of Edwards and a pregnant Hunter that is now at the center of a legal battle involving her and Young.  Edwards finally admitted in January that he was the father of her 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn. Hunter said she waited until he came clean to tell her side of the story.

“I didn’t feel like I could ever speak until he did that,” she said. “Because had I spoken, I would have emasculated him. And I could not emasculate him.”

Despite everything they have been through and the pain he has caused her, Hunter said her love for Edwards is “unconditional” — and indicated she hopes they’ll be together forever at some point. “We love each other very much,” she said. “And that hasn’t changed, and I believe that will be till death do us part. The love doesn’t go away.”

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