"I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF!" John Edwards‘ distraught wife Elizabeth screamed those horrifying words during a suicide attempt after finding out her husband’s mistress was pregnant with his love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Pushed to the brink by the disgraced two time presidential loser’s cheating, lying and cover-up, the long-suffering breast cancer patient was finally shoved over the edge when she learned that campaign "worker" Rielle Hunter was carrying the ex-senator’s baby.
In the latest shocking revelation from the Edwards scandal, sources disclosed to The ENQUIRER behind-the-scenes details of the hushed-up 2007 incident – breaking their silence after Edwards on Jan. 21 finally confirmed the paternity of his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Frances Quinn.
After impregnating Rielle, the ex-senator concocted a bizarre cover-up involving Andrew Young, a trusted campaign aide who falsely claimed to be the father. A very convenient patsy, say political insiders.
And now Young has revealed this heart-wrenching confrontation in his tell-all book The Politician.
But when Elizabeth learned the truth, she felt "completely betrayed," disclosed an insider.
She was so upset she became suicidal, say sources close to the couple.
"Elizabeth locked herself in their bedroom and shouted at John from behind the door, ‘I’m going to kill myself!’ " disclosed a friend.
"She added: ‘It’s ALL your fault!’
"Elizabeth later confessed she was going to swallow an overdose of painkillers to end her tortured life.
"She apparently ran to the medicine cabinet and emptied some pill bottles in a fury. She confessed that she actually had a handful of pills in her hand and was about to ingest them when she suddenly broke down in tears.
The heart-wrenching suicide attempt was the climax of several painful blows inflicted by Edwards on his gravely ill wife – who had considered taking her life in the past, say insiders.
"Elizabeth once confessed that she first thought about suicide after John initially told her he cheated with Rielle," the close source divulged.
"Elizabeth said her cancer was killing her slowly, but John had broken her heart beyond repair."
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