Young Dishes on Edwards' Sex Tape
Former senator reportedly wanted mistress to have an abortion
The longtime keeper of John Edwards' dirty secrets, former aide Andrew Young, now says he found a sex tape of the former U.S. senator and the reported mother of his child, Rielle Hunter. Young found the tape marked "special" when cleaning up the house that Hunter stayed in amid the scandal surrounding her affair with Edwards, he told ABC News exclusively. Though Young says he cannot see the woman's face in the video, made a few months before the Iowa caucuses, she was visibly pregnant and wearing a bracelet and thumb ring Hunter typically sported. Though Young's wife Cheri says the tape was cut and pulled out when they discovered it, they taped it back together to watch it. "I can't speak for the other body parts, but it's definitely his face," Young told ABC News of the tape, which left the couple "aghast." Edwards' longtime confidant also claims he asked him to persuade Hunter to have abortion in late May 2007, but he told him he "would not do it." An allegedly furious Edwards reportedly said he wasn't sure the child was even his, calling Hunter a "weird slut and a freak."
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