The first full excerpt of Elizabeth Edwards’ book Resilience is out in Time magazine. Short version: Elizabeth wasn’t intimidated by Rielle Hunter’s threats to be mean to her, and John Edwards is a big liar.
I don’t want to say, “I told you so,” but I did suggest, the day the affair broke, that John hadn’t told Elizabeth the whole truth. She backs up my assertions.
The next morning he told me why, or told me a version of why. He had made a terrible decision and had been with the woman. After I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up.
And the next day John and I spoke. He wasn’t coy, but it turned out he wasn’t forthright either. A single night and since then remorse, was what he said. There were other opportunities, he admitted, but on only one night had he violated his vows to me.
That, she learned later, was untrue.
Like most wives – or husbands – in my position, I wanted to believe his involvement with this woman had been as little as possible. A single night, another opportunity, but that was it and he had wanted away from her…. It turned out that a single time was not all it was. More than a year later, I learned that he had allowed [the woman] into our lives and had not, even when he knew better, made her leave us alone.
I’m saddened to think what she means by saying that John let Rielle “into our lives,” because it doesn’t sound like she’s just talking about the affair.
If you’ll recall, Elizabeth took a lot of heat for “allowing” John to continue campaigning — heat that I thought was ugly and unwarranted, in part because I figured he probably hadn’t ever really told her the full truth of the situation. Elizabeth finally responds to those criticisms, too.
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