RIELLE HUNTER NEEDS A FRIEND

.....Rielle Hunter needs a female friend; an honest to goodness one to set her straight. Not another actor/model/whatever hanging with her because she has good coke. Not somebody that's there to party. No; a true blue friend that would tell her she is making a big mistake. I doubt she's ever had a real female friend in her life.

.....Elizabeth Edwards is the real deal and a class act. Not only is she fighting cancer with incredible courage (as she did the death of her son) but she's tackling her husband, John Edwards' affair with class and grace. She has to know that were she to vent while on the talk show circuit, she'd sell more books. You can be certain that she has been encouraged to do so. The shows themselves would love a soundbite snippet that would appeal to their viewership. It's the dreaded cliche---after years of support and hardwork he up and "nails a bimbo'.

.....Rielle Hunter, evidentally angered by the book written by Elizabeth Edwards, wants revenge. She can phrase it whatever way she wants. Getting her side of the story out, protecting her daughter's interests, etc. The female demographic will paint her further into the homewrecker category. Although she is perceived as worse then that as she knowingly approached a man who had a wife that was ill. Women do not take kindly to having pregnant women and sick wives hurt. We all know that they aren't exactly presenting their most desirable and sexual selves when they are losing their hair or puking into a bucket. It's playing with marked cards. Sure, the male wanted in on the game, but he did not stand a chance.

.....It goes beyond this. Many people out there think that Rielle made Elizabeth ill again, as her cancer had been in remission. A lot of people believe that there is a link between stress and beating cancer. I would suggest that Rielle learn from history and study the case of Assia Wevill. Who? Even in death, Assia is the detested "other" woman. The one who "killed" Sylvia Plath. To this day, her name is known in literary circles. Instead of recalling her as an early female worker in the all male advertising industry and an innovator of an interesting ad campaign, she led to Sylvia's demise and the loss of who knows how much future works of art.

.....Rielle proclaims that she is a new age seeker. Her website, which has since been removed, featured items referring to this and she alluded to it in an interview while she was making her documentary of John Edwards. If she truly believed in this, she would recognize the flaw in her thinking. All of these beliefs have some basis in karma. What goes around, comes around. What you put out, comes back to you. By seeking vengence, she is violating a fundamental tenant that will only hurt the victim more. Surely that has to be a lot of bad energy to come back at you. At the very least, you'd think she'd feel some guilt (if she believed).

.....Rielle needs a friend to sit her down and tell her that nothing good is going to come of this. Let it go. Issue a statement that she is sorry to Elizabeth for any pain caused and that she hopes her children are not hurt by this. Not only would this best serve Rielle in the future, it would alleviate the guilt to some degree should Mrs Edwards not survive her illness. For Rielle does need a future source of income. She cannot live off of men forever. I saw her video documentary and I must admit it wasn't bad. She obviously got too close to her source (she slipped in one and called him honey when she boarded the plane). She had wanted to be an actress but that had never worked out. This will not work out either if she persists in this course of action. Nobody will trust her.

.....In a way, her background can explain, but not excuse her behavior. There's a difference. She came from a family of four girls and a father that appeared to be indifferent. Her parents split when she was seventeen and her father, it is reported, dated much younger women. Rielle seems to have been in competition with women for the attention of males all her life. She had been a promising horse jumper and had loved her horse, Henry the Hawk. Her father, in an insurance scam, had the horse electrocuted via attaching one electrode to his ear and the other to his rectum. Rielle became aware that he had done this and I cannot imagine how this must have messed her up. She must have loathed this man, yet she was dependant upon him for income. She never completed college and she gave up show jumping. She left for New York, where the writer Jay McInerney based the book "Story of My Life" on her antics. It details a woman who used huge amounts of coke and slept with men to maintain her lifestyle. This included faking an abortion to get money. In the book "American Psycho", Brett Easton Ellis describes a sexual assault upon her. Whether true or not, any woman would have been angered and saddened to have such details discussed in an open format; artistic licence or not. She moved to Los Angeles, quit drugs, married a lawyer (as was her father) and tried to become an actress with little success.

.....She seems like a woman who's learned to use people, but it has to stop. Rielle, you've got a child now and it's a girl. There's a message you need to send her. Not all women are in competition with you and deserve to be hurt. Not all men are there to be used as a means of survival. Work on that video production company. If truth and honesty is still as important to you as it once was, start with yourself. Look at your motivations. Look at the men you pick. It won't fix what took place in the past. I hope you find some peace.