After years of secrecy, Rielle - the mistress whose relationship with John ended his bid for the presidency and his marriage - is coming clean now.
"I fell in love with a married man and became something I wasn't in order to be with him," Hunter tells People, while promoting her new book.
What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me details the couple's past ... and present. "We're still together as a couple," she says.
Rielle, whose book claims John had other affairs and paints his late wife as a bona fide crazy person, won't predict the future, however.
"Marriage? Have no idea," she says. "I'm not a big fan of the institution but never say never." Hunter, 48, sees Edwards, 59, regularly in any case.
"Sometimes five days in a row. Sometimes every two weeks. It varies ... he'll play with [Quinn] for hours. He empties the dishwasher. He cooks."
"Johnny and I have been through so much awfulness with the wrath of America directed at us," she adds. "But I followed my heart and I don't regret it."
The main reason? "It produced the greatest love in my entire life: Frances Quinn," she writes of the couple's love child, now four years old.
Of their sex life, she says, "I don't think that's anyone's business." But, when asked if she thinks the former U.S. Senator is hot, she says "I do!"
Brings a tear to your eye, no?
