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82 Thursday, April 29, 2010 DAILY NEWSNYDailyNews.com Oprah does a Rielle-ity show Edwards' lover offers her side -1 W'm By RICHARD HUFF DAILYNEWS TV EDITOR OPRAH WINFREY says she was surprised that John Edwards' gal pal, Rielle Hunter, doesn't think she wrecked the former senator's marriage. "She doesn't think she's a homewrecker," Winfrey says in a promo for today's edition of "Oprah," airing at 4 p.m. on WABCCh. 7. "Doesn't think of herself as a homewrecker, and she does not think she played a key role in breaking up the Edwards marriage." Hunter is making her first television appearance since Edwards 'fessed up to being the father of her child, and since she spilled juicy details of their affair in GQ magazine.

"I think she's speaking out now because she wants to tell her own truth," Winfrey says. "She feels that she's been portrayed in erroneous ways. "She feels that the image that most people have of her is not accurate, and I think that every single person in her life, she says, told her, including John Edwards, told her not to do this interview," Winfrey goes on. "But she is a person who is guided by what she feels and feels deeply, and she felt very strongly that she would get a sense of relief by speaking her own truth." During the interview, Hunter tells Winfrey that she and everyone close to Edwards told him not to do the infamous 2008 inter- Rielle Hunter, who says she wasnt the main reason the ex-senator's marriage broke down, talks with Oprah Winfrey in an interview airing today. view with ABC News' Bob Woodruff in which he admitted to the affairbut denied the child was his.

"Everyone who was close to -well, who knew all the ued. "And she didn't know the truth. So it's like you can't do the interview and not speak the whole truth." Edwards told Woo druff that he couldn't be the father, based on the date of birth. Andrew Young, at the time a close aide to Edwards, at first facts and knew the truth said, please don't do that interview. Please don't do that interview," Hunter said.

"Elizabeth really 'She's speaking out now because she wants to tell her own astating to me. But I also knew it didn't mean anything." "So you just said she didn't know the truth. She knew that there was the affair," Winfrey asked Hunter in the new interview. "She didn't know until after the interview," Hunter said. "He came clean with her after that interview." The Hunter-Winfrey chat airs during the May sweeps, a key quarterly ratings period that some stations will use to set advertising rates.

wards and Hunter. Winfrey's interview with Hunter lands almost a year after Elizabeth Edwards appeared on the popular daytime show to talk about her book and her marriage. Elizabeth Edwards told Winfrey then she had "no idea" whether her husband was a new dad. "I've seen a picture of the baby. I have no idea.

It doesn't look like my children, but I don't have any idea," she said at the time. Hunter told GQ that Elizabeth Edwards' book tour and John's interview with Woodruff were "dev wanted him to do that interview. She wanted him to say, you know, you've got to get out in front of it. You've got to, you know, say the truth and speak the truth," Hunter contin- claimed paternity. Edwards eventually admitted to being the father after Young wrote a book detailing the scandal.

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