Rielle Hunter On Elizabeth Edwards: The 'Wife As Innocent Victim' Image Untrue
June 20 2012, Published 2:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
In her new book What Really Happened, Rielle Hunter expresses little remorse about sleeping with a married John Edwards, and dishes out details about what it was like being the other woman pitted against John's loyal wife of 30 years, the late Elizabeth Edwards.
Excerpts of the tell-all appear in People magazine this week, and it's clear Rielle feels little guilt about the adultery, insinuating she met the politician at a time his marriage was on the rocks anyway.
"Because there wasn't any physical or emotional intimacy between Johnny and Elizabeth, I had absolutely no jealous feelings about her," Rielle writes, adding "the 'wife as innocent victim' did not match the reality," as the pair had a fractured relationship.
Rielle wrote their marriage was "filled with issues that clearly neither Johnny nor Elizabeth wanted to address. They did not want to disclose the truth to themselves, much less the public."
Rielle reasoned Elizabeth should have been wise to John's cheating because of her own desolate love life.
"If you aren't having sex with your partner," she explains, "chances are high someone else is."
Rielle said she first met Elizabeth at an event in North Carolina in late 2006, and Elizabeth did not look her in the eye "and appeared to be frightened.
"I felt really bad for her," she writes.
If you're looking for sentiments of guilt about the affair, this book isn't for you.