John Edwards Admits to Affair

By: Lee Gordon Email

Posted: Fri 3:38 PM, Aug 08, 2008

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer.

He denied fathering the woman's daughter.

Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with a 42-year-old woman but said that he didn't love her.

He said he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn't the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth.

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