Last summer, Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' mistress, refused to have a paternity test to determine the identity of the father of her daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter.
Read more here.
Hunter has changed her mind since them. Calling Maury Povich....
From FOX News:
John Edwards' ex-mistress reportedly is interested in seeking a paternity test for her 1-year-old daughter after Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, sparked fresh questions over whether the father might be her husband.
The former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate denied being the father of Frances Quinn Hunter during a TV interview in August. But Elizabeth Edwards, in an interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Thursday afternoon, didn't sound so sure.
...On Wednesday, one day after Oprah's production company released excerpts of the interview, The National Enquirer reported that Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress, is working with a lawyer to seek a paternity test from him.
That's a reversal from last August, when Hunter's attorney Robert Gordon released a statement saying she "will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter's privacy now or in the future."
Edwards said at the time that he would "welcome" a paternity test, and that because of the "timing" of his affair "it's not possible that this child could be mine." But he indicated that his apparent willingness to take the test would lead nowhere unless Hunter consented.
"I'm only one side. I can run only one side of the test, but I'm happy to participate in one," Edwards said at the time.
It's unclear whether Edwards would be as willing to submit to a test if Hunter is on board with the idea.
His wife said in the interview Thursday that, "I suppose it would be easy" to determine the paternity but she did not press for a test.
"Whatever the facts are doesn't change my life in a sense," she said, adding that if the child is her husband's, "then that would be a part of John's life, but it's not part of mine."
It really makes me sick when I think of what John Edwards is putting his wife and his children through.
That said, I don't know why Elizabeth Edwards chose to attack Rielle Hunter in her new book. Certainly, talking about the affair will sell more copies, but she had to know that angering Hunter would be playing with fire. I guess Elizabeth doesn't care. What does she have to lose?
...Pigeon O'Brien, a former close friend of Hunter's who publicly questioned Edwards' account of the affair last year, said in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that she didn't know whether Hunter is seeking a paternity test. But she added: "It all has to do with [Elizabeth Edwards'] book and the resulting chaos."
In her book, "Resilience," due out next week, Elizabeth Edwards calls Hunter's life "pathetic" and writes that she threw up when she learned of her husband's affair.
A source reportedly told the Enquirer that Hunter decided to abandon the "cover-up" over the paternity of her daughter after learning about the contents of Elizabeth Edwards' book, in which she reportedly refers to the baby only as "it" and does not name Hunter.
While Andrew Young, a former Edwards campaign aide, claimed to be the father of Frances Hunter, another former campaign worker told FOXNews.com last summer that he and Hunter had "no relationship." The birth certificate for Frances Quinn Hunter does not list a father.
The question of paternity isn't the only matter still dogging Edwards in the wake of the affair and his subsequent confession. Federal investigators are also looking into how he's managed his campaign funds -- finance questions arose last year after his political action committee paid more than $100,000 to Hunter's company for the production of short videos.
Edwards went on the record saying he would welcome the opportunity to take a paternity test. He insisted that it was impossible for him to be the father.
If that's the case, then he should publicly pressure Rielle Hunter to cooperate and submit to a test.
The results would put an end to the soap opera, at least the doubts about Edwards being the baby's father.
Now that it seems Hunter is ready to participate in a paternity test, Edwards can't run away.
We know Edwards lied to his wife about the affair. It's not hard to believe that he's lying about fathering the child.
He's already a known liar. I don't think a test proving or disproving his paternity would impact what people think of him.
At this point, he has nothing to lose -- except maybe money. He destroyed himself.
From the National Enquirer:
John Edwards' furious mistress is demanding he submit to a DNA test, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively!
Rielle Hunter - the longtime secret lover of the disgraced 2-time presidential candidate - wants definitive proof that Edwards is the father of her 14-month-old love child Frances and is working with a lawyer to take legal action, say sources.
..."Rielle - probably naively - now realizes she had held onto a false promise that if she continued to take part in the cover-up John had engineered, they'd be together in the future," a close source told The ENQUIRER.
"She was willing to protect John for the sake of the child. She agreed to allow a crony of his to claim he was the baby's father, and she even kept the name of the father blank on the birth certificate.
"But now she can see there's never going to be a future with John - and she feels he's lied about his promise to keep Elizabeth from trashing her in the book," the insider divulged.
"Rielle is so infuriated by his and Elizabeth's actions that she's throwing her loyalty to him out of the window!"
Why trust unnamed sources?
The Enquirer hasn't been wrong about this story so far.
Edwards was lying when he claimed the story of the affair was false.
It wasn't concocted tabloid trash, like he said.
Rielle Hunter, of course, lied as well.
From the New York Daily News:
"The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous," Hunter stated. "When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional. This concocted story is just dirty politics, and I want no part of it."
That was crap.
So, both Edwards and Hunter are liars.
The truth is out there. It's in the DNA.
The whole thing is pathetic.
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