By James  Nye Father and daughter: Cate Edwards has given an interview in which she discusses the harrowing past 20-odd-years of her family's life and how she and her father, John Edwards (both pictured here during his trial in 2012) are now moving on as business partners together The daughter of John Edwards has revealed her father summoned her to the family's palatial North Carolina mansion to confess his affair - while his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth was waiting, 'elsewhere in the house'. Meeting her in the library of his multi-million dollar Chapel Hill estate in the summer of 2007, or 2008, the disgraced politician sat his Ivy-league educated eldest daughter down and admitted he had cheated on her mother.
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Cate Edwards, 32, has revealed her disgraced father summoned her to their North Carolina home
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Confessed to his affair with Rielle Hunter in the library of the multi-million mansion
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Cate Edwards made the revelation's in the aftermath of her father's successful return to practicing law last month
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Recounted the tumultuous decade the family endured with the affair, love child and her mother's death
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Revealed that her relationship with her father was forged after the death of her older brother, Wade in 1996
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Described how Edwards fainted through grief when he was told his son had passed away
At this time @placeholder knew of her husbands affair - but he had told her it was a one-night stand