Elizabeth Edwards Talks Possible Love Child On "The View" (VIDEO)

Elizabeth Edwards stuttered through four awkward minutes of talk about husband John's possible love child on "The View" on Tuesday, continuing an explanation she first gave on Oprah.

Without bringing up Rielle Hunter's name, Sherri Shepherd broached the subject in the second segment. Sherri's estranged husband fathered a child with another woman, so she can relate.

"If the whole issue would go away, I'd be perfectly happy," Edwards said. "Somebody is obviously the father... The fact doesn't change the relationship with my husband."

She went on from there, after being pressed by Barbara.

"I don't know whose child this is. I think that's probably the reason there is no father written on the birth certificate, I understand. Whoever the father is, they're going to have to have to deal with the fact that they have this child. From my perspective... my relationship with my husband is not changed by this."

She also said that if the child IS his, she would not leave John.

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[Cherubim]

I think people are being a lot too hard on John Edwards.
There are a lot worst people on this planet, for example, that promoter of torture, Dick Cheney.
Given a choice between Dick Cheney and that devastatingly handsome John Edwards,
I pray to God I'm allowed to have John Edwards.

[Bulbul]

Elizabeth is the possessed woman, in total denial,appearing non stop...yesterday, on Diane R show NPR, whic is an excellent show ! The book is already the best seller, without my help....can we put a stop to these appearances...

But, how about the innocent baby ?

[meko]

I think the general consensus is that Elizabeth Edwards' pain is all that matters now. She had bad things happen to her so she has carte blanche to do whatever she wants. Whatever she does to hurt or shame any child, including her own, is her husband's fault, because she was hurt so badly.

I think it must be awful to be any of those kids. The baby will suffer because of her parents. Edwards other kids will suffer because of a parent who won't let the pain go and insists that everyone they ever meet will know every tale, just to prove what a good person she is (and that it's her husband's fault if anyone suffers because of her actions).

It's a shame. Because if Edwards had not been sucked into the temptation of talking about the affair, she might have been a really effective advocate for health care. As it is, she's solidified the world's view of her as a martyr. It's a shame.

(And I really don't care about John Edwards. I wish he could just be forgotten by everyone involved. I tend to see him as a has-been.)

[Bulbul]

So agree...I do not know what her real intentions were but Elizabeth is certainly paving a path to hell, for all the children....even yesterday, on NPR, she said it is a one time fling, when it is known to be , and my heart goes to the children.

[Cherubim]

Finally, the laughter and the real issues retrun.
Watch Elizabeth Edwards on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Click:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=228031&title=elizabeth-edwards

[Cherubim]

Elizabeth Edwards talks with eloquence to Keith Oberman about the
book Resilience and Universal Health Care.
Click here for the video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677#30834299

[mostlyindignant]

bleccchh

[Ellyllon]

I see. 'Mom' is supposed to shut-up & dad can trot about doing as he pleases. Got it.

[meko]

Mom can leave. Mom can make up with dad. She has choices.

But the kids are not mom's therapists.

There is a place for privacy in life. There's nothing wrong with talking about your private life with friends, with a therapist, with your husband (even if you hate him). But sharing every detail and presenting your pain to the world is nothing to be proud of.

[meko]

I think that if any man shared all of the details of a wife's affair so that it would be all over the papers and internet and would embarrass his children, I think he'd be wrong too. Family business is for family. It's not for Oprah.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

Yup. That pretty much sums it up. I guess if women can't speak their minds then they can at least relish in the fact that they can still vote.

[meko]

I still remember when I was in college and my mom said, "I want you to listen to an audiotape of your stepfather and his mistress having sex." I was afraid to answer calls from her for months. Later they managed to work things out. So I had to spend the rest of my family holidays knowing all the details. It's not honesty when you share every last detail with your kids. It's not courageous to share all the details with all of your kids' friends. It's pretty selfish to share all the details with everyone your kids will ever meet.

She's two steps from standing on her front lawn in a bathrobe screaming her suffering to the street. Maybe that's better than a book - at least the memory might fade. Books are forever.

Elizabeth Edwards could have left or worked things out with her husband and not extended the tabloid drama. Instead she goes on the public vengeance tour. Like many a selfish parent, she can't see past her own pain, and is doing something that will hurt her kids to get back at the man who done her wrong.

I'm sure a lot of other hurt adults find listening to her pain healing, but that would have been a better activity for private group therapy. Martyr mothers aren't doing their kids favors.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

I am sorry for what your mom did but I haven't seen anywhere near what you experienced in EE's behavior. She is merely talking about her experience in a far more classy way than I could imagine. There is nothing wrong about talking about experiences. This has been all over the news. She is not discussing something that is private anymore. Her husband, the jerk, made this is a VERY public affair the day he decided to run for president of the United States while having this love child.

[meko]

It was in the news. It remains in the news because she continues to feed the beast. The story had pretty much dropped off the radar before she decided she had to continue the story by publishing a book.

To me it seems very familiar. Kids being raised by a couple of narcissists where their whole life is about their parents. First it's a campaign (and we find out they both knew about the affair then). Then it's an affair. And then it's talking about the affair endlessly.

There are couples who deal with infidelity and carry on with their relationships - but they don't become close again by broadcasting their story to everyone who's ever heard of them. They do it by rebuilding intimacy. Instead of inviting the whole world into their relationship, it becomes a story of just two people.

If she couldn't overcome her anger and forgive her husband, she could have left him. She could complain to her friends and spare her children the spectacle of her television performances. And if this is what she's like on TV, I think it's unlikely that the never ending story of her feelings is also the 24-hour-a-day focus of the Edwards household.

[RationalDubSteppa]

Yea well, what do you think will happen when their kids grow up. This affair was pretty much done and over SHE brought it back into the public eye. When her kids grow up they will always have that black cloud over their family name. Not only for what John did but for what EE did by constantly puttin herself in a position where she can bring up Johns indiscretion and show how innocent and how much of a victim she was. I don't know but I see years of therapy for those kids.

[Ellyllon]

OK, that is definitely appalling, and cruel. (to be fair, I wouldn't want to listen to a tape of my parents, or anyone, really - but yours is a disturbing tale, to say the least) Sharing all the details is wrong, obviously. I hadn't thought of it that way, but ack! Shudder!

[JiminNC]

I am sorry for Elizabeth but the fact remains, she was quiet when her husband was running for President. Nobody else made that choice for her.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

True.

[gisellestwocents]

She didn't know the full extent until long after he'd pulled out of the race. Evidently, she's still in denial about the full extent of JE's antics...

It's easy for people to be judgmental; but if they found themselves in EE's situation, I bet they would understand.

[alenaspoppa]

Most people are embarrassed. They make the decision to either forgive or get out. They keep the details to themselves. They don't write a book about it and go on Oprah. Give me a break.

[citizensrus]

Jonathan Darman tells me everything I need to know about Rielle Hunter, in his Newsweek column.
Anyone who defends this pathetic homewrecker is just as pathetic.


"I stayed in touch with Rielle for months. At lunch at the Soho House in late spring of '07, Rielle told me that she and novelist Jay McInerney were working on a "genius" idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them. She said they wanted to pitch this idea to Darren Star, creator of "Melrose Place" and "Sex and the City." At lunch early that summer, I asked Rielle if she was dating anyone. She answered simply, "I'm in love." I asked, "Who with?" "I can't tell you," she said, "but maybe someday we'll all be friends."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151783/page/1

[citizensrus]

Lots of hate for Elizabeth, I wonder where that comes from in these posters so intense in taking her down.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

I don't know but it boggles the mind. I feel like i'm living in an alternate universe. In my world the other woman is scorned not applauded for "class and dignity" like one silly poster said. Next you'll see these posters demand a woman of the year award for Rielle. Good grief. Then you have others demand that EE drop what she is doing to take care of the welfare of this love child as if that is something she is obligated to do. Rielle should be ostracized not only for what she tried/is trying to do to this family but for also purposely bringing an innocent being as a hostage to her selfish crusade. Rielle needs to worry about the example or lack thereof she is setting for her child. Rielle needs to seek support for this child or sink her claws into the next married man and hop on his gravy train. EE doesn't HAVE to do anything. She is a angry and rightly so. Whatever she chooses to do is her choice and nobody elses.

[gisellestwocents]

Probably RH and/or friends/family trying to argue the other side -- as though there is one...YUK!!!

[Ellyllon]

Lots of spurned mistresses, maybe? Or cheating men?

[meko]

For me, the hostility is because I was a kid in a household where the father cheated, and there was no end to the self-serving martyrdom engaged in by my mother. There was no end to the spectacles she engaged in to show the world how wrong she was. It was years of "look at me, look at my pain, look how noble I am to endure it," with no concern for or interest in any of the children in the house.

Before the book, I had nothing but sympathy for her. Whether they worked things out and emerged a stronger couple, she left him, or even if they decided to keep the property arrangement of the marriage together while not really living as husband and wife would all be choices that were her business. It's the book tour that gets me. The fact that she had no concern for the fact that feeding this fire hurts her children.

And it doesn't matter who started it. She's continuing it.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

Ok. Now I have some insight into your comments however I am on the other side of the fence. A cheating spouse WITH a love child is just a complete nightmare and the very thought makes me want to lie in a stretcher. But it sounds like you are more than irritated at your mother and I guess I see the parallels with the whole EE affair. We are not there to see what goes on behind the scenes but if she is acting at home the way she is acting onscreen then I see nothing wrong with it. She has done nothing over the top. However if she was to go on and on and do what your mom did then yes the children are being affected. Then the betrayed spouse needs to sut her losses and move on. But curiously enough you do not discuss the cheating father. Why? Are you of the mindset that it is ok for a man to cheat because boys will be boys? Where is the anger directed at the source of your mom's unhappiness? Just wondering.

[Ellyllon]

But isn't it possible you're judging Elizabeth based on your own mothers TMI actions? It seems to me she had this book going anyway, put in what appears to be a short bit about her husband's affair - because not doing so would be widely condemned as deceitful - and that's all the talk shows are interested in. It seems to me she's rather restrained about him, seems to blame the mistress, and lauds him as something far greater than he actually is. I question blaming the mistress when he's the vain one - but I don't see the vengeance. If anything, it seems like she's telling the kids it's not a marriage-altering event. And they're going to hear about it, anyway.

[Kenshin]

people who must really hate the idea of real health care reform. the US chamber of commerce hates her and her husband to bits, they spend millions to take them down, even now. same goes on with al gore wherever his name appears, except on a different issue....

[hollace]

I'm sorry she chose that title for her book....I cannot imagine saying to my partner...I was just out telling my story to anyone who will listen. She needs some help.

[CyberCitizen]

Elizabeth wrote this book for her children, mainly.

By the way, I want to comment on the Chapter devoted to Toshiko, the dance and samisen tutor...the fact that she never laughed or frowned. I have read that Japanese geishas are trained to not laugh or frown because displaying emotions will lead to wrinkles with time. They apply a sort of emotional botox to preserve their looks.

[meko]

There's nothing children like more than showing up at school to have the other kids make fun of them because their dad cheated on their mom and she won't stop talking about it public.

[Cherubim]

Oh by the way, in case you were wondering what
Lisa Druke a.k.a, the Rielle (Real Hunter) is up to.
She is after some of the "Lord's Dime", also.
Well according to that highly quoted National Enquirer
Click and read:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_mistress_rielle_hunter_interview_abc_barbara_walters_legal_battle_fortune_dna_test/celebrity/66705

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

Thanks for the link. This is getting juicier by the minute!

[Cherubim]

"Rielle thinks Barbara will relate to her better because she admitted to a long-ago extramarital affair in her memoirs," the source revealed.

So, I suppose the "source" for this National Enquirer story is, and all the other exclusive
National Enquirer stories on this topic have been none other than:
The Rielle (REAL) Hunter.
"Nice Work if you can get it."

[Ellyllon]

Well, if she starts talking now (and note to Rielle, God! Please spare us) - it won't be from lack of provocation. I'd rather eat bees than be in her shoes, but I can't say I'd resist speaking up myself, if I'd been termed a stalker.

[mphsnme]

WAKE UP (especially you Cherubim) Elizabeth Edwards is not a victim, she is a savvy politician who is spinning the truth to sell a book. This is not John's first affair, it is the one that gained national attention, and rather than be disgraced publicly and resolve it in private, Elizabeth decided to bring it back to national attention and humiliate her husband publicly to get even. This has nothing to do with resilience - what a joke - it has to do with revenge. I have been a victim. I have worked with victims. Elizabeth Edwards is not a victim - look at her body language in the interviews - she is smug, spiteful, self righteous, and self absorbed. She misses the limelight, and damned if she won't stay in it until the day she dies, the baby's paternity is resolved, and John will live the rest of his life with the woman he loves.

[Ellyllon]

"The woman he loves?"

Oh, some romantic shred of my soul just died...

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

LOL!

[citizensrus]

John will live the rest of his life with the woman he loves..
To whom are you referring?

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

It damn sure isn't Elizabeth.

[Ellyllon]

His own reflection!

[mphsnme]

To Sarahwaters - I agree with what you wrote, however, I AM a 60 year old woman, and I am dating a 42 year old man. If Elizabeth Edwards took care of her cancer, and spare me the insults, even before the cancer, she looked like his mother. It is just a fact - he was no longer attracted to her, they didn't have sex, he got it elsewhere. It happens all the time. Elizabeth Edwards is the only woman I know though who makes it national news, AFTER she begged America a year ago to allow her to resolve it private. She is not resilient. If she were, she wouldn't have had to write a book about it. And To Cherubim - if you want to get advice on how to face life's adversities from a millionaire who doesn't work who lives in a mansion on 100 acres, rather than women all around you who live paycheck to paycheck and deal with illnesses and cheating husbands (now that's resilient), your choice, and your loss.

[Cherubim]

Thanks for reading my posts.

[Ellyllon]

Um - as I understand it, this book was contracted before the affair. It was to be about her illness, her other hardships, & she felt the need to include what is apparently a short bit about her round-cheeked husband's affair because avoiding that would just be ridiculous.

It's interesting that you don't seem to feel a man can love a woman if she doesn't 'look' right. Also, a man doesn't actually need a mistress for gratifcation. He's got a wrist, doesn't he? I mean, why bother with vows at all?

[citizensrus]

I disregard your post as the animosity is just leeching from it.

[Kenshin]

um, when i got married, it was not "till my looks run out" but "till death". we work thru all sorts of stuff, and being musicians, we know how being on the road is total death to any marriage--stuff just happens, even to people who'd never think they'd fool around, look at amy grant.

i appreciate everything that elizabeth does, especially on health care. i don't think that if i were in her shoes, that i could turn away from this important moment in history, and let affairs, cancer, or anything, take away my voice to make real health care reform a reality, when i know that i have the microphone, and i can use it to speak up for those without a voice...you know, those who live paycheck to paycheck...

[meko]

If you hope to heal your marriage after an affair, you have to forgive. This means no revenge. It means working to restore trust, respect and intimacy. And intimacy and airing your dirty laundry on a national book tour are incompatible. It's hard, but if you forgive someone, it means you've decided to stop trying to get even. You can't even get even with the other woman, because all that does is bring negative attention to your husband. It takes away from the work of becoming a couple again.

If you want to take your revenge, and show your contempt for a cheating spouse, then leave. No child should have to live in that atmosphere. It's not healthy for the couple either.

I know they have money, fame, and power. And to some people, living with someone you don't respect, who you try to shame publicly, might be worth it for the sake of those material things. But there's nothing honorable about that.