Rielle Hunter in GQ
Rielle Hunter is the latest mistress to be milking the media for attention and publicity.
Hunter, the mistress and baby momma of Edwards’, has a spread and interview in the latest issue of GQ which is making waves.
The article portrays Rielle as a doting mother of a 2-year-old baby girl named Quinn, John Edwards’ daughter, who supposedly is a spitting image of him. The author of the article felt that Rielle was genuine, uninterested in fame and fortune and a is mother whose daughter is the focal point of her life.
The photos accompanying the article are probably raising eyebrows though. They did mine. Girlfriend is laying IN BED with her sweatpants untied – OR with no pants on donning a pearl necklace, HA! Just a tad suggestive…hmmm? Not exactly conducive to the image she and the author were trying to portray.
You haven’t uttered a word so far. Why now?
I feel comfortable talking now, because Johnny went public and made a statement admitting paternity. I didn’t feel like I could ever speak until he did that. Because had I spoken, I would have emasculated him. And I could not emasculate him. Also, it is not my desire to teach my daughter that when Mommy’s upset with Daddy, you take matters into your own hands and fix Daddy’s mistakes. Which I view as one of the biggest problems in all female-and-male relationships.
We’ll get to that. But first, we should make it clear: You’re not making a penny from this interview.
[laughs] I am not making a penny from this interview!
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.
How hard was it to keep quiet?
At times very difficult. It’s been four years. It’s hard to know that people are out there speaking over and over and over again untruths. Lies. Consciously going out there and spinning the truth. Using me and Johnny and our relationship to make themselves look better, to play victim, or to get money. That rubs me the wrong way in every way possible.
By the way, do you always call him Johnny?
[laughs] Isn’t that funny? You know, when I first met him, the first week of our relationship, I said to him, “For some reason I cannot call you John, it doesn’t come out. Could I call you Johnny?” And he said, “That’s my name.” And I didn’t know that, but that’s his actual birth name.
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.
What was the hardest thing you’ve had to read about yourself?
Um, well, there’s so much, Lisa. [laughs] I mean, just for starters, I never “hit on” Johnny. I’m not a predator, I’m not a gold digger, I’m not the stalker. I didn’t have any power in that way in our relationship. He held all the power. And then, you know, um, Elizabeth’s book tour and Johnny’s interview [in August 2008 with ABC’s Bob Woodruff] were devastating to me. But I also knew it didn’t mean anything.
You mean the interview where he said it was impossible that he was the father.
Correct.
And wasn’t that when he was asked if he loved you and he responded by saying there was only one woman he ever loved, Elizabeth?
I believe so. Yeah. I mean, it was very painful. Because I had this thing in my head like a lot of women, where you want your man to stand up on a cliff and scream, “I LOVE HER.” You know, the knight in shining armor. And that wasn’t what was going on.
Continue reading the interview at GQ.
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