Politics / sex scandal Edwards Mistress Wants DNA Test Love child could be exposed as John's By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted May 7, 2009 7:52 AM CDT Copied In this Dec. 27, 2006 photo provided by the National Enquirer, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, is shown with videographer Rielle Hunter in New Orleans, La. (AP Photo/The National Enquirer) Elizabeth Edwards’ trash talking of Rielle Hunter is backfiring—Hunter now wants a DNA test to prove John Edwards is the father of her baby, the National Enquirer reports. “Rielle is so infuriated by his and Elizabeth’s actions that she’s throwing her loyalty to him out the window,” said a source, adding that Hunter was at first willing to protect the former senator because she believed they had a future together. “Rielle wants the paternity of her daughter Frances finally established,” the source continued. “It could ruin John for good because even after admitting the affair, he vehemently denied being the father!” (More sex scandal stories.) Report an error