The woman John Edwards had an affair with while his wife had cancer vowed that she will live next to the jail he will reside in if he is convicted. Â Â He can be locked up for fraud . Hit the jump for the details on this case.
Steph Bassanini
When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a jail.
She quickly responded that she and their daughter would move there to be near him if that happened.
Rielle Hunter details the couple’s phone call just days before his indictment in her new memoir What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me, which was obtained today by Associated Press.
It also included 48-year-old Hunter’s mixed views on Edwards’ parenting of their daughter Quinn and descriptions of his wife Elizabeth’s outbursts.
Hunter was pictured for the first time being interviewed on camera for 20/20, sitting with her daughter Quinn in her lap.
At the end of the book, Hunter says she still has romantic feelings for Edwards but doesn’t know how their relationship will turn out.
The book also provides a window into Edwards’ psyche as federal prosecutors began their case against him. Days before his indictment Hunter asked: ‘So if you went to jail, what kind of jail would it be? One of those country clubs?’
‘He said, ”Yeah.'”
‘Where?’ she asked.
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