For Elizabeth Edwards, ‘Cuckolded Wife’ is not how she wants to be remembered in the history books. In her first interview since her split with the once Presidential hopeful, who admitted to infidelity with multiple women, she told the “Today” show anchors that she is at peace, and wants people to focus on what she has accomplished, not what she has been through. Check out the full story, with photos and video below!
Fathering a child in secret with Rielle Hunter during his 2008 presidential campaign, her husband had become a different man than the person she married she said in the interview. She then spent two years trying to ‘reinvent’ her marriage, only to be faced with the admission that he had cheated again with a videographer.
Still, splitting with the politician was not an easy thing for her to do, even after the infidelity.
“So when I closed the door on the John of today, I also had to say good-bye to that sweet man whom I had loved for so long,” she wrote in one of her books. “It was not as easy as it might have seemed to anyone looking in from the outside, who knew only the John of today.”
Not an easy time for Elizabeth Edwards. ‘Cuckolded wife’ image aside, John’s infidelity was not the only struggle Elizabeth was facing at the time. She had also been diagnosed with cancer, and has recently found out that it has metastasized to her legs, spine, and skull.
“It’s less frightening than you think; it can’t migrate to your brain.”
Brave woman. Coming to terms with what she had been through, she compared her situation to Sandra Bullock’s recent divrorce.
“I think about Sandra Bullock – who I don’t know at all – what an incredible year she’s had,” Edwards said. “She won the Academy Award for an incredible performance, and more than that, she took that story and integrated that into her own life in this healthy happy way. And yet, the stories you hear are not about all those great successes, but about the failure of her marriage. That’s not who she is…I assume she wants to reclaim who she is in the same way I want to reclaim who I am.”
Asked whether she had really moved on and found peace in her new situation, she said:
“I have, I mean, I really feel I have. I still really feel I need to break free of the media imposed image. I’m not just a cuckolded wife…I want to reclaim who I am. I hope the next time I am on television it’s to talk about some policy I really care about.”
Good for her! It must be so difficult to go through what she went through, and then have the media drag the story on for ages, even when you have already moved passed it! What do you think of the latest interview of Elizabeth Edwards? ‘Cuckolded wife;’ is that how history will remember her? Is there anything she can do about it? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section! And don’t miss the photos and video below!
Photos: www.wenn.com/Michael Carpenter, Carrie Devorah
June 30th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Does she not know that a cuckold is a MAN with a WIFE who is unfaithful? Check wikapedia, along with many, many other sources.
June 30th, 2010 at 5:07 am
What a strong example Elizabeth is for all women. She is not the former wife of John Edwards. She is a woman who has taken hurt, tragedy, sorrow, pain and trasformed herself as an example of hope, triumph, strength and
a positive attitude for the future. John Edwards has proven he was never good enough for this wonderful lady…and is just perfect for the wh0res he has chosen.
June 30th, 2010 at 5:32 am
John, really, quite picking her apart. She’s been picked apart by the media for years now. It’s time to let her live her life in peace. She has had to live through so much, and yet she still lives on. I pray that Elizabeth finds much happiness, success and peace in her future and that there is life after John. God bless you Elizabeth.
June 30th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Seriously, that’s all you can say John after all she has been through and is still fighting? I admire Elizabeth Edwards for her poise and grace in the face of adversity on all fronts. What an awesome inspiration, her cup is definately half full!
June 30th, 2010 at 7:02 am
The article states Mr. Edwards had multiple affairs. It lists Miss Hunter and then says he also had an affair with a videographer. Are they not one and the same person? If not, who was the other person he had an affair with.
June 30th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Aside from misusing the word Cuckold she is a Leftist idiot along with her husband. Just the thought these 2 could have ended up in the White House scary enough. She should just fade away.
Oh and the MSM who hid the Edwards affair, like the hid the Lewinski affair, like they are hiding the Obama affair, like they hid the Reverend Wright story, America’s news media bottom feeders who make the Enquirer look like the real journalists.
June 30th, 2010 at 7:57 am
There is no one I admire more then Elizabeth Edwards .What strength she has shown through all of this ,and each day that she faces .The most important part is that we continue to support her and her fight against breast cancer. It is definetly not an easy situation to live with , as I am going through the very same thing . I pray that she will put herself first and fight the cancer , become her own person and find the exact peace that she deserves.I think she is very much entitled to the woman of the year award and we need women like her in our country . Hold your head high , you have a life to live.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Kelly Senton,
Thanks for the double entendre. I wish her success in her battle with cancer as well. I’m sure she was aware that she had married a scumbag well before the story broke. Hopefully, we can all move on with our lives and not hear another thing about either of these idiots or the hogbucket he was poundatatin’.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:19 am
I don’t think Elizabeth Edwards should compare herself to Sandra Bullock. Sandra kicked her cheating a$$ husband out immediately, while Elizabeth was willing to hide it and still support her husband in his run for President of the United States!! How they ever thought they could get away with that is beyond me and it made me lose total respect for Elizabeth. I’m a breast cancer survivor myself, so my heart aches for what she has gone through and will go through, but that doesn’t excuse her behavior. And as a lifelong Democrat, I think the two of them are an embarassment.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:30 am
This poor abused woman married a “sweet” womanizer, a narcissist who when something looked better for the moment, he bailed out on his wife. And when ill, to boot! I wouldn’t trust him to any political position. That woman he picked up with is an opportunist gold digging **** and Edwards deserves someone like that as punishment. Elizabeth is too good for him.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Aside from her political beliefs she is human.
I just beat cancer. As rough as that was I cant imagine the hurt if my wife were out fcking around at the same time. Its almost inconceivable. I wont buy her book, dont care for some of the things she said during the campaign, but I’ll give her kudos, wish her the best and drop a note in Gods box for
June 30th, 2010 at 8:47 am
…her
June 30th, 2010 at 9:13 am
BFD. “She’s such abrave woman”; why? Because she’s taking the time in the midst of her struggle with cancer to be be concerned about how she’ll be remembered? Talk about delusions of grandeur.
And newsflash; like a great many other political wives she’d have stayed with him if he had any real chance of capturing the oval office. An opportunist par excellance.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:13 am
This is a fact that Mrs. Edwards did state that she stayed with her husband once she learned of his indiscretion because she believed it to have been a one night stand. She explained (did anyone else hear this) that once she learned about the child and other information emerged, she decided it was best to leave the marriage. But for Laurie, who questioned why Mrs. Edwards did not kick him out right away when citing Sandra Bullock’s marriage breakup, they are hardly the same situations. Mrs. Edwards is fighting TERMINAL breast cancer and ending a marriage, especially with young children still at home, takes guts and lots of thought. Bullock and James had no children of their own and Bullock does not have cancer, so even Mrs. Edwards said the situations were not the same but said that Sandra Bullock’s successful year is being defined by her failed marriage and not by what she did as a professional actor. Did any of you naysayers even watch the interview today? God, you people are disgusting. Your’re so busy lambasting the woman for this and that, but those of you who are, don’t have a clue what you are talking about since most of you who have negative remarks are not citing from correct information. Read folks and listen to the individual doing the talking before you jump on a message board and prove to the world what dumb S–ts you are.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’m probably the most foul mouthed evil b*stard that regulars this blog beatin up on libs as best I can.
Those of you who are lambasting this woman whos facing certain death are more dispicable than she or I could ever be.
At this point politics and your views of her are pretty much irrelevant in the big picture.
What I think of Elizabeths politics, misguidedness etc.
She is human. She is going to die a painful death. Unless shes committed some horrific act of terrorism, murder,theft, whatever, you should lighten up a little bit.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:54 am
My concern with this is that we would not even be hearing Elizabeth Edwards’ name if her husband hadn’t been a presidential candidate and a serial cheater. She’s worried about HER legacy? All she ever did was ride John Edwards’ greasy coattails.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:59 am
I feel sorry for Ms. Edwards, she seems like a nice lady facing much more than any of us should all at one time. Unfortunately her husband was seduced by power, and his insecurity of his own masculinity, brought him to the point of being unfaithful to his wife, and violating every moral he had. Power corrupts absolutely…wish her well in her life and her health.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Newsflash; we all face certain death. Instead of concerning herself with framing her legacy she should be spending what lucid time she has left framing a positive mental perspective for her young children. She is not unique in having had a husband who cheated. She is not unique in confronting terminal cancer.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Sorry micky. It’s not often that I disagree with you (or dare to) but this woman is merely trying to reinvent herself. She was exposed in that book as a self-centered, overbearing shrew who henpecked her husband and his staff and I think her ambition to be First Lady was even greater than his to become president.
Like Hillary, she chose to overlook his indiscretions and then again, like Hillary, feigned heartache and ignorance when he was exposed. Unlike Hillary, she was the odd man out. No First Lady and no husband when the smoke finally cleared.
As for the cancer, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but it’s my opinion that she used her diagnosis to garner sympathy for both herself and her husband to boost his campaign.
Her legacy was the most important thing to her then and it’s the most important thing to her now.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I agree 100% with Maureen. Her comment were right on point, no much more needs to be said beyond that.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:42 am
The word is cucquean.
June 30th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I admire Elizabeth Edwards so much. I only pray that she outlives both John and his Ms. Hunter (whatever her name is). God will protect her (Elizabeth)through these tough times and I only hope that John drowns in his misdoings. God bless you, Elizabeth, and your children. I am so happy that you are doing so well. God speed ahead.
June 30th, 2010 at 11:56 am
I hope she gets a miracle and recovers from the cancer. Otherwise I hope she does not suffer much. Her husband is a jerk.
June 30th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I’m not buying the ‘poor Elizabeth’ story OR that Edwards’ changed after meeting Rielle Hunter.
He is what he’s always been and she is what she’s always been. They don’t live in a 29,000 foot mansion because they are ‘nice’ people. He was an ambulance chasing type lawyer from the get-go and so was she.
Now she’s making even more money selling her story and portraying herself as a victim.
Of their house she said she didn’t think it was ostentatious, just practical. Come on.
I feel terrible for her that she has cancer. Its a terrible disease. But it doesn’t define who she is as a person, or CHANGE who she is as a person.
June 30th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
I feel badly for her because regardless of her efforts to keep it personal and save her marriage, she had to face all this publicly. Most of us have no idea what that is like. I don’t see how she can face so many things and still keep a smile on her face. I suppose when you have cancer, you have already faced the worst. I understand what she says when she says “John of today is not the sweet man I knew yesterday” and how alarming it is to find yourself with someone you don’t know anymore. Anyone who can’t sympathize with her on some level simply doesn’t have a heart.