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<\/p>\nDisgraced former presidential hopeful John Edwards and his wife of more than 30 years, Elizabeth, have separated.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n A spokesperson for Elizabeth — who is battling terminal breast cancer — says the mother of four is “moving on with her life and wants to put this difficult chapter behind her.”<\/p>\n “She’s doing as well as you could expect,”<\/em> Elizabeth’s sister, Nancy Anania, remarked to The Associated Press this afternoon. “I’m really proud of her that, somehow, she’s got strength that you rarely see in a person.” <\/em><\/p>\n The former North Carolina senator says he is “extraordinarily saddened”<\/em> over the split. <\/p>\n “It is an extraordinarily sad moment, but I love my children more than anything and still care deeply about Elizabeth,”<\/em> Edwards told The AP<\/em> Wednesday. <\/p>\n The couple’s separation comes less than a week after John Edwards confirmed he was the father of his former mistress’ 2-year-old daughter. <\/p>\n In Elizabeth’s memoir Resilience<\/em>, she revealed that her husband first told her about his affair with presidential campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter, in 2006.<\/p>\n John and Elizabeth have four children together — their olddest son Wade died in a car accident in 1996.<\/p>\n Disgraced former presidential hopeful John Edwards and his wife of more than 30 years, Elizabeth, have separated. A spokesperson for Elizabeth — who is battling terminal breast cancer — says the mother of four is “moving on with her life and wants to put this difficult chapter behind her.” “She’s doing as well as you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HY5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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