Aide: Edwards Dismissed Mistress As ‘Crazy Slut’

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In his second day of testimony as the chief witness in the trial of John Edwards, Edwards’ former aide Andrew Young said his boss’s first reaction upon learning his mistress Rielle Hunter was pregnant was to dismiss the news as the ravings of a “crazy slut.” 

From the Associated Press:

Young said Rielle Hunter told Edwards she was pregnant in June 2007, weeks later than the aide originally claimed in a tell-all book published in 2010. Young said Edwards, told him to “take care of it,” meaning the pregnancy.

“He said she was a crazy slut and there was a 1-in-3 chance that it (the child) was his,” Young testified.

 

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