Rielle Hunter Files Motion to Stop Release of John Edwards Sex Tape
John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter has filed a motion to get a restraining order to stop the release of a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician. There go all our hopes that the Edwards sex tape was just a myth. The Smoking Gun has the paperwork for the motion.
Now that former aide Andrew Young has gone public with the whole sordid story, Edwards really has nowhere to hide on this one. Andrew Young has a new book called The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down coming out tomorrow which is packed full of ghastly details about the Edwards disaster. Edwards
spoke to ABC about the sex tape and how Edwards tried to make Rielle have an abortion (she refused because she believed theirs would be some kind of "Golden Child" messiah.)
"There was one tape that was marked 'special,'" Young told ABC News' Bob Woodruff in an exclusive interview. "It's a sex tape of Rielle and John Edwards made just a couple of months before the Iowa caucuses."
Though Young never saw the woman's face in the tape, he said she was "visibly pregnant" and was "wearing a bracelet" and a "thumb ring" typically worn by Rielle Hunter.
"It's her jewelry," Andrew Young's wife, Cheri, told ABC News. "It could be on another woman with the same jewelry."
*****
He details how he and wife Cheri briefly returned to Raleigh, N.C., in July 2008 to clear out the house where Hunter had briefly lived before their December 2007 escape from the media. Young claims they found a box Hunter had left behind, which included some videotapes, in a pile of trash.
"It [the tape] was cut and pulled ... out," Cheri Young told ABC News, "We... taped it back together and we played it."
*****
"She [Hunter] asked me if I were in her shoes what would I do. And if I said, 'I'm pro-choice, but after having had three kids, if you're asking me what I would do, no, I would not do it,'" Young recalled of his conversation with Hunter.
Young claims that Edwards was infuriated with him for not convincing Hunter and stressed that he was not certain the baby was his because Hunter was a "weird slut and a freak."
Hunter had started out eager just to be around Edwards, but over time became more comfortable in her role as Edwards' lover -- even wife -- having sex in the Edwards' marital bed, according to Young. Eventually, she became possessive and demanding, Young claims.
So, will the sex tape get out? You know they always get out, sooner or later.
