"Everyone talks about how Johnny has fallen from grace. In reality, he's fallen to grace,’" Hunter says. "He is integrated. He is living a life of truth. He has grown in awareness and humility. He had all these things within him, but they weren't the guiding, leading principles of his life. Now they are."

Yet Hunter conveniently ignores that Edwards’ divine fall only arrived after an undisputable National Enquirer photograph; that he renewed his wedding vows with his wife Elizabeth when she herself was pregnant; that he disavowed her publicly on national television; that he doesn’t fear her because she has already cost him everything he owns

And when Edwards called her after publicly stating that Elizabeth was the only woman he ever loved, Hunter says she told him, “Ouch, that hurt." And he said, "I'm sorry." And "It doesn't mean anything." And it didn't. I know he loves me. I have never had any doubt at all about that.”

It would be so easy for the rest of us to forgive the tangled mess Edwards’ has made out of his own life -- and dozens of others’ lives -- if we too posessed Hunter’s magical ability to discern whether the former Democratic presidential candidate means what he says or what he does.

Hunter does succeed in convincing us that Edwards has met his perfect match: he’s finally found someone who love him as much as he loves himself.


Of their first night together, she says, “I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us. …It was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced.”

And still more: “We had an extraordinary night, and I did know that this was unlike anything either of us had ever experienced. And as we have all learned, that was accurate! “

And then: “We love each other very much. And that hasn't changed, and I believe that will be till death do us part. The love doesn't go away. It's unconditional. It's unconditional on my part, but our connection is profound.”

Throughout the extensive interview, Hunter tries even the score against Elizabeth Edwards and Andrew Young, the faux father of her two year old girl named Frances Quinn. She insinuates Young is a thief, a liar and a homosexual. And she paints Elizabeth as a wrathful emasculator for whom she nevertheless feels “compassion.”

Ultimately, though, Hunter, whose own lawyer father was a conniving cheat, conveys how clueless she is about performing the dirty work for her “humanitarian” boyfriend.”

Of this interview, Hunter says that Johnny is “very supportive of me talking now. He believes that it's something that will help me be at peace with it. And he knows how important truth is to me. Factual truth as well as spiritual truth.

As a federal investigation of Edwards’ campaign’s payments to Hunter’s video company continues, as an epic divorce fight looms, Edwards’ has given his blessing for Hunter to talk. Because, even though she's too blind to see, Rielle Hunter is a tool.