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John Edwards Wanted Paternity Test Faked: Aide

Andrew Young says boss wanted used diaper; Edwardses have separated

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 21, 2010 12:57 PM CST
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(Newser) – Former John Edwards aide and fake babydaddy Andrew Young is dishing on the specifics of the foiled ruse, including a seamy attempt to fake a paternity test. Young’s ABC News interview, set to air next week, is widely seen as the impetus for Edwards’ acknowledgment today that he is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby, Frances Quinn Hunter. The New York Daily News got its hands on a copy.

Young says at one point Edwards told him to “get a doctor to fake the DNA results.” Young, who sequestered Hunter for months during the scandal, says the former senator asked him “to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this indeed is his child.” In addition, NBC News confirms the widely reported rumor that John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, who is battling terminal cancer, have separated.

John Edwards in happier times.
John Edwards in happier times.   (AP Photo)
Rielle Hunter with her child.
Rielle Hunter with her child.   (AP Photo)
Andrew Young.
Andrew Young.   (AP Photo)
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fancygapva
Jan 21, 2010 8:10 AM CST
Well, he's a pop.....
newsho
Jan 21, 2010 8:07 AM CST
He always struck me as one of those dudes that had the "Antichrist/Damien" look. He just looked like one of those people that would sell out their own mother to the devil. In the future, I will strive to be more cognizant of the way people look and try to judge them in the same manner. It seems to work.
fancygapva
Jan 21, 2010 8:07 AM CST
I really don't care who my politicians (or YOUR politicians) sleep with, but Edwards' hypocracy and failure to take either responsibility for cheating on his terminally ill wife OR for impregnating his mistress until utterly cornered makes me a little ill. As I've said before, powerful men and women screw around. Many people make themselves available to the rich and powerful. It's always the cover-up that gets them in trouble and that is most sickening. The women (or men) who stay around and put up with it in order to bask in reflected glory also make me a little sick including Mrs. Spitzer and Mrs. Clinton (who no longer lives with Bill but pretends that they are together). I admire Governor Sanford's wife, Tiger Woods' wife and more recently Elizabeth Edwards but it took her WAY too long. Better she had just left him than written a tell all and gone around to all the networks to publically pillory him. Private things are private things. Deal with them honestly and with as little fanfare as possible and then move on. If nothing else, ala Jenny Sanford, spare the children the bright light of the media glare. They have to live over it. They have to go to school, they have to grow up. Better to do so without the noteriety bequeathed by indiscrete parents.

 
John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Andrew Young • paternity test • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Frances Quinn Hunter • DNA sample • John Edwards lovechild

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