Cate Edwards has opened up about her half-sister Frances Quinn – the 5-year-old who was at the center of her father’s fall from grace.

And the daughter of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she loves the little girl who is the result of her dad’s affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.

Asked if she is able to have a relationship with the child, Cate, 31, told TODAY. “Well, I mean yeah. She’s my sister.

“And she’s just a really sweet, innocent little girl. Yeah, I certainly think of her as part of our family.”

In the interview that aired on Friday, Cate also spoke to Savannah Guthrie about her relationship with her father’s mistress, Rielle.

Asked if she had met the woman who was the videographer during her father’s 2008 bid for the White House, she said: “I have, a long time ago, early in the campaign.”