John Edwards Love Child Scandal Erupts Again
Posted on July 25, 2008
It looks like the John Edwards love child/mistress story is about to break wide open. The National Enquirer caught the former senator red-handed at the Beverly Hills Hotel visiting his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and their infant child. The story is completely ridiculous, with reporters ambushing Edwards as he tries to sneak out of the hotel at two in the morning. He ended up hiding in the bathroom for fifteen minutes until a hotel security guard came and got him and escorted him to his car, while a pack of reporter hurled questions at him. Fox News independently confirmed the story by interviewing the security guard.
The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards - whom he did not immediately recognize - in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door. "What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked.Edwards' spokseperson refused comment to Fox, which is not a good sign. Apparently, he was busted big time. Why do they always think they can get away with it? How ghastly this must be for Elizabeth and his other children."His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child. The guard said he escorted Edwards, who was not a registered guest at the hotel, out of the building after 2 a.m. Edwards did not say anything while he was escorted out, said the guard, adding that at times the reporters on the scene were "rough on him," sticking a camera in his face and shouting questions.
The guard did not recognize Edwards at the time of the incident, but said he concluded it was the 2008 presidential hopeful after hearing reports about the incident and finding an Enquirer reporter's notebook at the scene. The guard said during the chase the reporters had dropped the notebook, which he picked up. "This book has everything in it on him," he said, referring to Edwards. The guard later confirmed Edwards' identity after being shown a photograph.
A former campaign staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told FOXNews.com he wishes he were "more surprised" to hear reports Edwards was visiting Hunter. "I'm definitely upset by it. I wish I was more surprised, though." Edwards this week has repeatedly refused to comment on the Enquirer report. Asked about it on Thursday at an event in New Orleans, he said: "I have no idea what you're asking about. I've responded, consistently, to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies and you know that ... and I stand by that."
One irrelevant thing keeps coming to mind: has anyone else noticed how much Rielle resembles Camilla Parker-Bowles?