Wife of John Edwards has breast cancer, likely faces surgery.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)Morrill, JimFunk, Tim
Hickman, who advised Edwards that his 2008 presidential hopes were doomed, said Edwards "did everything he could to placate Mrs. Edwards... He acquiesced to Elizabeth Edwards making decisions... She took the lead and he deferred to her." Mrs. Edwards did not want her husband to drop out ...
That night, Young said, Edwards admitted to his wife that he had had an affair. Elizabeth Edwards, who died of cancer four years later, reacted "violently" to the news, he said. "Anytime that he would almost be asleep, she would get like an inch from his face and start screaming at...
Edwards and Hunter started their affair in 2006 when Edwards had been married to his wife Elizabeth for 29 years. The Edwards had four children together. After news reports began reporting on the affair in 2007 and 2008, Edwards denied allegations that he had fathered a child with Hunter f...
Vowing that he will continue his campaign, Edwards and his wife Elizabeth announced on March 22, 2007 that her cancer had metastasized to her rib cage. On January 30, 2008 at about 1:25 PM ET in New Orleans, Edwards announced that he would end his presidential campaign. In a news ...
even putting Hunter on the campaign payroll and arranging for her relocation and housing expenses. John Edwards has not been able to explain his highrisk-takingsexualbehavior; nor has his wife. On the surface, this behavior is strikingly out of sync with Edwards' highly succe...
WOODRUFF: Your wife, Elizabeth, is probably the most admired and beloved person in this country, she's had enormous sympathy because she's also gone through cancer, how could you have done this? EDWARDS: Here's what, can I explain to you what happened? First of all it happened during ...
Edwards waged a scrappy underdog campaign for the Democratic nomination, always outshone by the historic nature of Obama possibly being the first black nominee and Clinton the first woman. He continued to campaign after the family disclosed that Elizabeth's breast cancer had returned. ...
One in seven women in America will come down with breast cancer in their lifetime. When it hits a family it is more than a statistic, it is a struggle for survival. My wife and Elizabeth Edwards have the same attitude – a continual feeling of how fortunate they are to have close frie...
"At the time, they were living on Davie Street in Raleigh," recalls Tony Edwards, the AAU coach. "He said, 'I'm going to get my family out of here.'" The backboard beside Wall's friend's house in Raleigh where the young boys would shoot for hours still stands, although it's see...