Elizabeth Edwards Defends Cheating Husband John Edwards

John Edwards (55) had an affair that resulted in a love child, Frances Quinn Hunter, with Rielle Hunter (44), while his devoted wife Elizabeth Edwards (59) is dying from cancer. Despite everything, Elizabeth is defending John and released this statement:

Our family has been through a lot. Some caused by nature, some caused by human weakness, and some most recently caused by the desire for sensationalism and profit without any regard for the human consequences. None of these has been easy. But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him.

John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007. This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well. Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private. The pain of the long journey since 2006 was about to be renewed.

John has spoken in a long on-camera interview. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do. I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.

Elizabeth and John celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary in July. Even though the rest of us know John is 100% lying about everything Elizabeth still chooses to believe what she wants to believe, and that’s up to her. She is dying, so no one should expect her to just kick John to the curb, when she needs all the support she can get right now.

There are a lot of wives that will overlook a husband’s affair, until they get their mistress pregnant, which is too much for most women to accept. We’ll see what happens when John finally submits to a paternity test. There are rumors that Miss Hunter helped plant the camera which snapped of picture of John holding the love child, and that she wants John to take a paternity test so everyone knows he’s the father of the child.

John gave an interview to Night Line which aired on August 8. In the interview (part 1 above and part 2 below), John was not forthcoming, gave scripted answers that would make Bill Clinton blush, and still appears to be hiding the truth. John isn’t holding back to protect Elizabeth.

John Edwards wanted to be the President of the United States of America, and Barack Obama was considering John as a Vice Presidential running mate, so we have the right to expect better behavior from John than lying and cheating. He’s supposed to set an example, but instead John has proven he is someone that can’t be trusted or believed.

With all that said, Rielle Hunter, who did not list a father on the birth certificate, is not going to ask for a paternity test to prove whether or not her 5-month-old daughter is John’s. Rielle said she wants to “maintain her privacy and her daughter’s privacy.” Seems like those rumors that John was transferring large sums of money to Hunter could be true after all.

When is the media going to investigate the Barack Obama love child rumor?