EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Edwards References Cheating In First Public Speech Since Split From John Edwards
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 @ 03:10PM
Elizabeth Edwards coyly referenced her husband’s cheating in her first speech since announcing her separation from John Edwards, RadarOnline.com has learned.
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Elizabeth spoke before a hand-picked crowd of students, faculty and staff only at Nova Southeastern University Thursday. No press was invited, but RadarOnline.com was there.
The reference to her husband’s affair came when a student asked: “If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?”
Elizabeth, laughed with the crowd and said “I know the answer…I think you do, too.” But she refused to be more specific.
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Although Elizabeth described the position of First Lady as “one of the worst jobs in the country,” she said the reason the former Senator ran for the top office is, “We thought there were things the government wasn’t doing. I thought my husband’s voice was a really important voice.”
His Presidential run came to a crashing halt when it the National Enquirer revealed that Edwards fathered a child with his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
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“The idea that we have control over how our lives will turn out is a myth,” Elizabeth told the crowd, discussing the death of her 16 year old son Wade in a car accident.
“There are things you have no control over. Wade was the first. It was very hard, for a very long time, to accept that he was gone.”
She said she learned from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on how to handle grief, but also admitted “We need to give each other permission to fall apart sometimes.”
Today, Elizabeth, who has been diagnosed with cancer, said, “I don’t pray for my health. I don’t pray for God to do anything.”
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@peachygirl: i agree. she must be emotionally drained. Maybe everyone else can pray for her and stand in the gap? ; )
Posted Mon, 02/22/2010 - 2:14pm
The saddest comment of all that Elizabeth made is the last one in the article...that she doesn't ask God for anything anymore. She's so traumatized by events of her life that she thinks God doesn't care. That's profoundly sad...& not true.
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 8:42pm
Sad but she may not be religious. She doesn't talk about faith (fine, her business) She's also said when they decided to get married after 3 yrs in Chapel Hill, they drove around to find a "pretty" church so neither had been attending church.
Posted Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:09am
a "pretty" church? i don't believe i've ever heard that one before. lol!
Posted Sun, 02/21/2010 - 1:36pm
i agree peachy...that is one of the saddest things i've heard.
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 10:53pm
Some of these comments people make about Elizabeth are really gross. This is someone who is dealing with stage 4 cancer & you have idiots saying she should have left him & another one saying she wanted the spotlight?????
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 5:18pm
When you're dealing with any stage of cancer, the last thing you need is to be fighting a highly public divorce with young kids at home. In fact, you don't want to be dealing with any divorce...public or private..
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 5:23pm
Nobody want to see JOHN shortcoming...John nothing but a BIG FLIRTI just hope there no more babies for him to want to MURDER.He drop out of the campaign b/c he knew HE** was about to break out...
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 4:28pm
John Edwards is a jerk and a loser but he never murdered anyone or wanted to murder anyone.
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 5:22pm
so abortion isn't murder to you.
Posted Sat, 02/20/2010 - 7:11pm