What Rielle Hunter Told Me

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  • Posted By: Esencia08 @ 08/10/2008 5:42:51 PM

    What I dislike about Ms. Hunter is the way in which she would try to wreck another woman's life (Elizabeth Edwards) just because she wants to resources and social prestige of being with an alpha male. Also, it is interesting to note how Edwards said he behaved in an egotistical and narcissistic fashion toward his wife and family. Well it seems that Riele Hunter used her new age philosophy to breed more ego-centered narcissism in Edwards making him believe that he was "special" and could be a large scale transformational leader in the world! I find it despicable that Rielle Hunter would conspire to wreck another woman's life, a woman who has been battling with cancer and who obviously needed the caring and support of her husband. It's quite scary when so-called spiritually enlightened people engage in very soul destroying acts towards others.

  • Posted By: Esencia08 @ 08/10/2008 5:41:32 PM

    What I dislike about Ms. Hunter is the way in which she would try to wreck another woman's life (Elizabeth Edwards) just because she wants to resources and social prestige of being with an alpha male. Also, it is interesting to note how Edwards said he behaved in an egotistical and narcissistic fashion toward his wife and family. Well it seems that Riele Hunter used her new age philosophy to breed more ego-centered narcissism in Edwards making him believe that he was "special" and could be a large scale transformational leader in the world! I find it despicable that Rielle Hunter would conspire to wreck another woman's life, a woman who has been battling with cancer and who obviously needed the caring and support of her husband. It's quite scary when so-called spiritually enlightened people engage in very soul destroying acts towards others.

  • Posted By: Reader1357 @ 08/10/2008 5:35:46 PM

    In late spring of 2007, after John and Elizabeth Edwards learned that her cancer had spread and was incurable, Rielle Hunter was telling Darman about her love for a mystery man who might be available in the future and her plans for a TV show about women "helping" men end their unhappy marriages. This makes me even more confident that Edwards is lying about breaking up with Hunter in 2006 and not being the father of the baby.

    At lunch at the Soho House in late spring of '07, Rielle told me that she and novelist Jay McInerney were working on a "genius" idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them. She said they wanted to pitch this idea to Darren Star, creator of "Melrose Place" and "Sex and the City." At lunch early that summer, I asked Rielle if she was dating anyone. She answered simply, "I'm in love." I asked, "Who with?" "I can't tell you," she said, "but maybe someday we'll all be friends."

  • Posted By: Chuckamok @ 08/10/2008 5:07:53 PM

    Geez ... so Edwards IS the sleezebag we thought he was all along. And soon his fatherhood WILL come out, as will the hush money. And DO you suppose funds from his campaign - tenners sent in by all the "little people" - were SOMEHOW diverted to this nefarousness ?? Hmm ???

  • Posted By: mbailiff @ 08/10/2008 4:48:08 PM

    This story is hillarious and incredibly sad. I laughed out loud while reading this story and at the same time I had the thought of thank good we did not elect this guy for president.

  • Posted By: billp @ 08/10/2008 4:37:11 PM

    Unbelievable - not only did John Edwards cheat on a wife who was accomplished in her own right and a tremendous asset to him, risk destroying his chances for President, and upon doing so lie to his supporters and the world, the woman he did it all for was a New Age wacko! This makes the story even more rich; this guy's ego, sense of entitlement and invulnerability are epic P.S. Elizabeth Edwards, while of course not to blame for the affair itself, has destroyed her reputation and credibility by her actions since she found out. No sympathy is due her now because of that.

  • Posted By: clairesolt @ 08/10/2008 4:29:13 PM

    Now shw sounds like Rasputin.

  • Posted By: willbravo @ 08/10/2008 12:48:29 PM

    More New Age shallowness masquerading as depth. "Bad energy" for Ms. Hunter seems to be "well-honed hussy detector" for Mrs. Edwards.

    • Posted By: missdeal2005 @ 08/10/2008 3:36:37 PM

      Absolutely! You can't peddle New Age platitudes and engage in infidelity -- with not one, but TWO married men! This airhead is completely out of touch. A little knowledge is dangerous -- what really counts is the virtue within. Everyone knows the minute you cheat, you have gambled your soul.

  • Posted By: missdeal2005 @ 08/10/2008 3:34:09 PM

    When you gamble with your conscience, you have already lost. "Avoid the near occasion of sin" -- an honorable man will stay away from a vulnerable scenario; a liar, cheat, lover of SELF will play with firem, roll the dice and spend the rest of his life trying to cover his ***. Lies upon lies ... he deserves what he gets.

  • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 08/10/2008 3:30:40 PM

    Why is it that so many intelligent, complex, powerful, accomplished men allow themselves to become entangled with the most airheaded of ditzes who apparently operate within a complete moral vaccuum? Why do these men overlook the fact that this behavior demonstrates the most callous disregard for the people they love most and for their own careers and integrity. Scratch a few flakes off one of these miscreants and you'll expose the hateful, selfish core that drives them to lure powerful, successful people to their painful ruin. When the press treats the "mistress" as a passive object in the affair, it does society a disservice. Let's give her her due. Both parties involved displayed cold-hearted disrespect for themselves and for those who trusted in them. So sad that all it takes to avoid the pain and destruction is, in the immortal words of Spike Lee, to "Do the right thing."

  • Posted By: VoiceFromWhoville @ 08/10/2008 3:30:19 PM

    Why is it that so many intelligent, complex, powerful, accomplished men allow themselves to become entangled with the most airheaded of ditzes who apparently operate within a complete moral vaccuum? Why do these men overlook the fact that this behavior demonstrates the most callous disregard for the people they love most and for their own careers and integrity. Scratch a few flakes off one of these miscreants and you'll expose the hateful, selfish core that drives them to lure powerful, successful people to their painful ruin. When the press treats the "mistress" as a passive object in the affair, it does society a disservice. Let's give her her due. Both parties involved displayed cold-hearted disrespect for themselves and for those who trusted in them. So sad that all it takes to avoid the pain and destruction is, in the immortal words of Spike Lee, to "Do the right thing."

  • Posted By: Peardiver @ 08/10/2008 3:19:23 PM

    Maybe Rielle was just channeling Bonnie Blakely, ya think??

  • Posted By: roncraw @ 08/10/2008 3:03:30 PM

    Had Edwards's in fidelity been disclosed lst fall Hillary would be the Dems. Nom.

  • Posted By: VirginiaHarris @ 08/10/2008 2:53:05 PM

    Sex and the Suffragettes

    I admire Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary Clinton for standing by their men.

    Thanks to the suffragettes, women have choices in their lives. They didn't have to stay - they wanted to.

    Politicians will be politicians, and I think political wives know that their husbands will face a plethora of 'opportunities' to cheat.

    The ones who really suffer are the mistresses. Imagine what Rielle Hunter's life is going to be like.

    Probably about as dreadfully bleak as the 'outed' mistresses of Bill Clinton, Woodrow Wilson and Warren Harding.

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  • Posted By: willbravo @ 08/10/2008 12:31:53 PM

    From the "Other Side of the Coin" Department: One person's "bad energy" might be another person's "well-honed hussy detector." As is often the case, the best qualified are too smart to run. Mrs. Edwards is still the rock.

    • Posted By: willbravo @ 08/10/2008 12:52:21 PM

      Sorry for double post. My error.

  • Posted By: vmjee @ 08/10/2008 12:24:09 PM

    Does anyone else question Mr. Darman's version of this story? Luncheons in SoHo with wine ...come on, and he thinks she really hopes that he's okay...because she sent him flowers on the death of his father? Do men live in a bubble or what? While he thought he was working her, be assured she was working him. What if Ms. Hunter showed up and told us that after the luncheon in Soho, she and Mr. Darman had a liason at some apartment? Whom do we believe? I think Mr. Darman's story gives us another view of why men fall down the rabbit hole all the time. They often see a woman as a means to an end, and are they surprised when they learn they have just been a piece of the puzzle in a plan wought by the woman. I would suggest that we start a national demonstration project for at-risk accomplished men and their gigantic egos...I will just bet you neither Elliott or John thought they would become as much of a joke as Bill for the very same reason???a stupid liason with a singularly unaccomplished younger woman...should I have added Mr. Darman???s name?

    very same reason...a stupid liason with a singularly unaccomplished woman!

  • Posted By: Cloey @ 08/10/2008 12:19:18 PM

    I hope the author of this article isn't married-he'd be in big trouble for me. And what complicity from Newseek. This is proof that when/if there are scandals in the Obama world, Newsweek and others like them will cover and ignore to protect the liberal Democrats. This whole thing is sordid and I fault St. Elizabeth as well for participating in the cover up while he ran. They should have dropped out of sight and protected their poor kids who have to live with 2 screwed up and deathly ill parents.

  • Posted By: grizbayer @ 08/10/2008 11:44:46 AM

    Take it from someone who has been down the path with the New Age seductresses (one marriage, two girlfriends) that "releasing your potential: has less to do with saving the world and more to do with orgasm.s It is a peculiar kind of dishonesty that wraps lust in mysticism. You dodged a bullet, young man. John Edwards didn't..

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/10/2008 10:52:48 AM

    She sounds like a nutcase, definitely an aging party girl with a penchant for married, high-profile men. And now she refuses to take a paternity test so we can all be left wondering....

    OF COURSE she literally threw herself at Edwards and pursued him like a maniac until he finally let her seduce him. She may even be a bit unhinged herself.

    This story should just go away - you're making this dumb blonde a major celebrity with all the news, and poor Edwards (and his family) just suffer all the more for it. Americans need to get a life so they don't hold their political candidates to such high personal standards. This is really not even newsworthy - this whole affair. It's just too banal.

  • Posted By: daffna55 @ 08/09/2008 9:19:32 PM

    to teresa: If dear sensitive little Rielle is such a sweetie, why did she 1. screw with someone whose spouse is known to have cancer, 2. brag about it, and then blackmail him afterwards?

    • Posted By: teresa95051 @ 08/09/2008 9:28:27 PM

      reply to daffna... i'm not saying she is a "sweetie"...not a descriptor that comes to mind, not at all. But really, i don't get the sense she is blackmailing anyone, that's not the character of the person described in Darman's article. I do think, however, that she is BEING blackmailed. She's caught in a web of some very very powerful people. I just read one of the comments below, a website that has public documents of Hunter, Andrew Young, and the campaign finance guy (whose house is worth over $11million. That girl is scared for her life about now... a lot of powerful people breathing down her neck.
      As for Elizabeth Edwards, where is her integrity? If she knew about all this, all along, how could she make the statements she made over and over, about morals and family values? How could she play into that illusion of her family being a paragon of family values? How could she leave the american people with such a potential disaster, a scandal for both the democratic party, and potentially for the office of the presidency if her husband had been chosen as running mate, or attorney general. Where's the proclaimed "honesty" in that?

      • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 08/09/2008 9:39:21 PM

        teresa95051 - Let me understand this: Elizabeth Edwards is dying of cancer, trying to raise two young children, her husband has an affair - and SHE is the villian? You are questioning HER integrity? It was up to HER to prevent a scandal for the democratic party?

        You're even loonier than Rielle.

        • Posted By: teresa95051 @ 08/09/2008 9:49:10 PM

          apparently there are several of us "loony" people with similar opinion. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/elizabeth-edwards-drank-h_b_117938.html

          "IF" she really knew about all this since 2006, she had no real basis for advancing her husband's career as a man building an entire campaign around honesty, morals, and family values. Just listen to her past interviews and statements. Sorry you consider my opinion as "loony."

          • Posted By: free2008 @ 08/09/2008 10:24:22 PM

            Regardless of what she went through, she did participate in the fraud against the American people along with her husband if we are to believe her story she knew in 2006. And she allowed the mistress to continue on the campaign.

            While I have empathy for her medical situation, she isn't the only one dying. Living a life of dignity doesn't mean enabling. It isn't Godly or forgiving,contrary to what abusers and enablers like to spout.

            Her cancer came back after she learned of the affair. Maybe a better and healthier choice for her would have been to leave him. If he had any decency, he would have quit the campaign and made it up to her by being there for her in every way, especially after all he had done to her.

            Unlike a lot of women, she wasn't financially dependent upon him and he certainly wasn't taking care of her physically. He was physically and emotionally abandoning her both on the campaign trail and in his lover's arms. The whole thing reeks of a very dysfunctional relationship while they put on a front to the world of a great loving family.

            • Posted By: alessan @ 08/10/2008 10:33:27 AM

              If their relationship had problems, it was because she got sick and has cancer that cannot be cured, stage 4, all she can do is take medicine and hope it keeps her alive a while, she wanted to go on
              living , Not sitting around and waiting for death at home. It was her choice to continue with him. I believe
              the affair with Hunter ended in December, 2006, fireing her, was because the campaign felt she
              was not a professional and now that he was running for President, the campaign wanted professionals,
              many supporters could do what she did so far as videos are concerned. Of course Edwards said he told his wife he had a personal relationship with women, people don't think she got fired, you have got
              to be hidden. She worked and got paid from the One America, not the campaign. If checks were issued in
              April, 2007 to Midline, it was money owed, for the seven months of filming and traveling.
              Did Edwards see her again in a personal way, the way he did two weeks ago in Calif., sure it's possible
              that is not an affair, but a sexual liasion, just for that purpose. I guess thatis why that question of the baby
              Daddy comes up. But really at this point who cares, I am sure he will pay for child suplport., maybe that
              is what he has promised in return for leaving his name off the birth certificate, afterall he probably promised Elizabeth htee would not leave her in her condition and would stop seeing the baby mama, while she is alive. Since everyone believes the tabloids and the stories Hunter tells them, she plans on
              marrying Edwards, after Mrs. E dies. What a bitch, she told the story to her friends about the affair and
              ruined the man's political future.
              E.

          • Posted By: Rose J. @ 08/09/2008 10:35:23 PM

            "Rielle" aka Lisa Druck is a selfish, opportunist ,gold digger who charades as a New Age "spiritualist" all while she is causing damage and destruction, wreaking havoc on people's lives and causing tremendous pain. What a fake. Sounds like the woman snorted too much coke during her days as a "NY Party girl,"

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