As GQ so tactfully puts it in its introduction: "the affair and the cancer-stricken spouse, the doomed campaign and the love child, the sex tape, all of it" is covered in its interview with Rielle Hunter in its April issue.
But apart from a creepy photo-shoot (well, it's GQ, although even Hunter didn't like them either), there really isn't much to shed any light on the bizarre events of John Edwards's presidential campaign in 2008. This is about as exciting as it gets:
[John Edwards] in fact did say to me the first night, "Falling in love with you could really fuck up my plans for becoming President." And of course I said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans."
The whole thing is online here – Hunter comes across as rather sane if very new-agey, although she does seem serially surprised at being given large sums of money by people she doesn't know very well. A couple of the more interesting quotes:
I would imagine you could have sold out a hundred times.
I could have cashed out big. But that's not what I'm about. I love Johnny and I love my daughter more than anything in the world, and I don't want to ever do anything to hurt them or hurt their relationship.Is he okay with your doing this interview?
He's very supportive of me talking now. He believes that it's something that will help me be at peace with it. And he knows how important truth is to me. Factual truth as well as spiritual truth.
And that's the end of that story.
