Elizabeth Edwards: 'Whole Family Is Relieved'

She worries lover will take over after her death

(NEWSER) - Elizabeth Edwards is doing everything in her power now to keep her estranged husband's mistress from becoming her children' stepmom, friends reports. Edwards hopes her eldest daughter will become the guardian of her younger children if she succumbs to her late-stage breast cancer, reports the New York Daily News. "She doesn't want Rielle Hunter anywhere near them," says a source. Edward's health has recently "taken a turn for the worse," according to a pal. More»

He shouldn't have lied to Bob Woodruff, she tells Oprah

(NEWSER) - Rielle Hunter’s highly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey airs tomorrow, and ABC News has a preview. Hunter says she—and “everyone who knew all the facts and knew the truth”—begged John Edwards not to do the interview with ABC’s Bob Woodruff in which he admitted having an affair but denied fathering Hunter’s child. Elizabeth, she claims, was the one who insisted on the interview. More»

Edwards mistress tells Barbara Walters she 'went with the flow'

(NEWSER) - Elizabeth Edwards probably isn't too thrilled with Rielle Hunter's GQ spread —but neither is Hunter. Barbara Walters said on The View today Hunter told her that when she saw the pictures, she found them "repulsive." When Walters asked her why she posed the way she did, Hunter said she trusted the "brilliant" photographer, and "went with the flow." Added Walters, "She cried for 2 hours." More»

The mistress talks—a lot

(NEWSER) - Rielle Hunter finally speaks out—a lot—in a 10,000-word GQ interview covering, among other things, her first sexual encounter with one “Johnny” Edwards (on the day they met). More from the unpaid interview:

• On her feelings for Edwards: “I love Johnny and I love my daughter more than anything in the world. We love each other very much. And that hasn't changed, and I believe that will be till death do us part.”
• On the Edwards’ marriage: “Their relationship has been dysfunctional and toxic and awful for many, many years."
• On Andrew Young: The cover-up “was Andrew’s idea”; “Andrew was in love with Johnny.”

He 'still cares deeply' about wife Elizabeth

(NEWSER) - John Edwards confirmed his separation from wife Elizabeth yesterday, calling it “an extraordinarily sad moment.” Elizabeth has had divorce papers ready for a year, but an insider says trust issues finally pushed the couple over the edge. “John feels like, 'I can't live with you checking my cell phone, asking who I was with, where I went. That's not how I want to live the rest of my life,'" he tells the New York Daily News . More»