What Really Happened, Rielle Hunter
What Really Happened, Rielle Hunter
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What Really Happened
John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me

Author: Rielle Hunter

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2012


Synopsis

The John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time," "a fall from grace," "a modern-day tragedy"-it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one-the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter. In What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn. Meet Edwards' political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of friends, enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron actually went. This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.

About Rielle Hunter

Rielle Hunter has been writing since 1993 and has studied meditation, yoga, and Eastern philosophies. What Really Happened is her first book. She has one daughter, Frances Quinn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

I didn't think it was possible for me to walk away from this book liking her any less than I did before I started it. What an unlikable, selfish woman. She seems to live a very extravagant lifestyle for someone who was essentially sponging off of anyone who would pay her bills. Throughout the book,......more

Just read this one out of tabloid curiosity. I can see why John Edwards had to break up with her after this book came out. She is seriously delusional and seems to think this man who cheated on his dying wife is going to be true to her and her daughter. In the first chapter alone, she calls him out......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine

I read this on my Kindle so no one would see me. I was really curious because when I was a teenager I read Jay McInery's Story of my Life over and over and the narrator in that book, Allison Poole is based on Rielle. Something in that world-weary, blasé character really fascinated me and I was curio......more

Goodreads review by Kassa

I went into this with an open mind. I didn't follow the media scrutiny of their affair that closely so I only knew the basic facts - they had an affair resulting in a kid that he denied while lying about her constantly. I was curious what she would present as "her" side. I'm not morally or otherwise......more