Elizabeth Edwards Sent Disturbing Voicemails to John Edwards Aide Andrew Young's Wife

Elizabeth Edwards, cancer victim and cheated-on spouse, sent disturbing voicemails to former John Edwards aide Andrew Young's wife who, interestingly, was largely out of the picture of the whole, sordid, Edwards scandal. Andrew Young is of course the former Edwards aide who is currently at the center of the whole unraveling of the Edwards affair into the scandal that it is, being the author of the tell-all expose on John Edwards called The Politician. These voicemails are disturbing because they portray Elizabeth Edwards in her own voice and words as an emotionally distraught woman who at the time was possibly on the verge of a breakdown, but if your spouse was John Edwards (philanderer, liar, Mr. Four-hundred-dollar-haircut), maybe you'd be as unhinged as Elizabeth, too!

These voicemails are hot off the press, so to speak, and newly released as, according to Young, at the time of his book's release, he was the recipient of a threat of a lawsuit by Elizabeth Edwards that tried to block the expose of the scandalous quality of these voicemails. Clearly, the aim of the suit was to sabotage the corroboration of Young's assertions in his book on John Edwards as they basically help to support many of Young's claims.

Andrew Young's wife, Cheri, by the way, was a very peculiar target of Elizabeth Edwards' misplaced and potentially incoherent displeasure because of her real lack of involvement in the whole Edwards affair scandal. To recap for readers who may not be into tabloid-politics 24/7, the heart of the Edwards scandal is as follows: John Edwards had an affair with his videographer Rielle Hunter while his wife was dying from cancer in 2007; this produced a love-child born in 2008. For two years, John Edwards lied to the American people through repeat denials; he even used Andrew Young as his fall-guy, persuading him to dishonestly claim to be the father instead. Only last month did Edwards finally admit paternity, and the Edwardses are said to be separated and on the way to divorcing right now.

In fact, Cheri Young, according to Andrew, never liked John Edwards as a person (she turned out to be a good reader of character) while, disappointingly, still liking his "causes" (like his lie about homeless vets sleeping under bridges across America?). She claimed that what finally completely turned her against John Edwards was her distressing witness to a phone conversation that John and his mistress were having one day, in which John was cavalierly bragging about being on the way to getting the Democrat nomination for president while he insolently tried to assure his mistress that his wife, Elizabeth, was a sure bet to die soon!

The first voicemail to Cheri Young was disturbing in how creepy it was. Sent on July 8, 2008, it features solely an almost disembodied-sounding voice just heavily breathing for a few seconds on the voicemail. As if that wasn't creepy enough in a sort of stalker-meets-the-Exorcist fusion, it is then followed by a type of laughter that sounds jeering, a cackle, if you will, punctuated by Elizabeth hanging up.

Voicemail number two was sent on July 23, 2008. Containing only the terse and straightforward message "Andrew needs to pay for that baby," it's disturbing due to the way in which it was left, primarily relating to the type of voice used. While we know it was from Elizabeth Edwards, mysteriously, she tried to disguise her voice by making it sound artificially higher in pitch than normal for her. The end result sounds almost prankish like a young child trying to fool someone.

The third voicemail was sent on August 10, 2008, still to Cheri Young. This one is disturbing because it had an insinuating, almost taunting quality to it as if Elizabeth almost was on to the ruse that Cheri and Andrew were conniving with John Edwards to continue perpetuating. In the message, Elizabeth made mention of Cheri's move to North Carolina and how she claimed that Andrew and Rielle could be really close together.

It's the fourth voicemail sent on September 11, 2008, that likely takes the proverbial cake in being the most disturbing, only because it really portrays Elizabeth in her own, damning words as something of a paranoid woman (who could blame her at this point?). In the message directed at Andrew though sent, weirdly and disorderly, to Cheri's voicemail, Elizabeth accused Andrew (a 40-year-old man) of "stealing" her dead son Wade's baseball cards! Now, this was after, according to Andrew, Elizabeth well knew that a person from a repair crew working at the Edwards' house had already been arrested for that theft! Additionally, the incident was over two years before she left that disturbing message.

The moral of this sordid story is this: Don't leave creepy-disturbing voicemails on the inboxes of people who may write a tell-all book about your lewd affair and massive lie to the whole country. Andrew Young says even more-woah!-disturbing voicemails are to come in the future; we can only anticipate what they may be until their release.

To send Marc questions, praise or criticism, you can email him at marc_schenker@telus.net

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Edwards' haircuts cost a pretty penny, MSNBC

John Edwards extramarital affair, Wikipedia

David Saltonstall, John Edwards proposes to mistress Rielle Hunter, NY Daily News

Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman, John Edwards, and Homeless Vets, Fox News

FoxNewsElectionHQ, Bizarre Behavior by Elizabeth Edwards, YouTube