VIDEO: Edwards' Ex-Aide Thinks It's A Shame People Focused On Sex Tape
Posted on Feb 01, 2010 @ 09:15AM
John Edwards’ former aide Andrew Young said he thinks it’s a shame people are focusing on the alleged sex tape starring Edwards and mistress Rielle Hunter. Appearing live on Good Morning America on Monday, Young claimed the bigger issue at hand is the conduct of a "viable presidential candidate" behaving as Edwards did on the brink of an election year.
"I think it’s a shame people are focusing on this," he said. "[But] I couldn't have told this story without including the sex tape."
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Young said he was "genuinely surprised" that Edwards has been in the limelight recently, revealing his paternity to Hunter's child, and building homes in Haiti just as the book was set to hit shelves.
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Young -- who claims that he found the videotape in July 2008, while rummaging through a pile of garbage at a Raleigh, North Carolina house Hunter once lived in -- said he was, again, "genuinely surprised" that Hunter sent authorities to his North Carolina home to retrieve it last week after she won a temporary restraining order over the alleged homemade sex film.
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When host George Stephanopoulos asked him why he hadn't turned the tape over, Young said he couldn't comment and that he would "have his lawyers handle that."
"I'm not sure that anything she's asking for is hers," he said.
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Young's tell-all book about the Edwards sex scandal, The Politician, is in stores now.
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Why on earth would he think people wouldn't be interested in the sex tape...some sick people feed on that stuff so why do something like that in the first place and lay your head on the block..it's going to happen.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 12:56pm
Andrew Young and his wife tried to promote a perv for president they too should be exiled.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 12:42pm
so did elizabeth.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 3:03pm
None in this scandal will come out whole. Young is fighting a slick meister, who may be going to jail, & Young is super-glued to the serious charges of hush money/slush fund blurr. Young's sourcing a way to pay to save his own sorry hide.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:37am
Young is a horrible human being. Edwards is not a good person but YOUNG IS WORSE OF A LOW LIFE THAN EDWARDS. Young stole private property and hunted for something to make money from. He is hurting Elizabeth and all of John's kids.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:00am
It is extremely nauseating. Like Seriously said, it's so Jerry Springer.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:14am
we are ALL human beings & 2 expect another human to stand on higher ground while we shut the door 2 a closet that houses our own personal skeletons is ludicrous. This whole thing is SO Jerry Springer!
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:55am
mmm SHE sent the authorities? Interesting to say the least. All 5 of them should be brought up on charges for trying to scam us. How this guy and his wife jeoparized their INTEGRITY for slimball Edwards is just disgusting!
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:53am
good points....and now he's making money off of his own lack of integrity....incredible.
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:55am
um, is he animatronic?
Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:49am