Rielle Hunter GQ Interview & Photos

In a tell-all interview with GQ Magazine, John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter speaks out about her affair with the former Democratic presidential hopeful. The vixen videographer reveals intimate details about her relationship with "Johnny" and says "I could have cashed out big. But that's not what I'm about. I love Johnny and I love my daughter ..."

"Infidelity doesn't happen in healthy marriages. The break in the marriage happens before the infidelity. And that break happened, you know, two and a half decades before I got there. So the home was wrecked already. I was not the Home Wrecker," says the woman who slept with a married man whose wife was battling cancer.

She adds that the public has misjudged her - "I'm not a predator, I'm not a gold digger, I'm not the stalker."

Here are some more highlights ((Via NYMag, I haven't gone through the whole thing yet) from Rielle Hunter's first public interview:

On their love at first sight: I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us. I sat on the other side of the room. I wouldn't go near him. And he kept saying [she mimics his southern drawl], "What are you doin' over there? Come over here. I can't even see you. Come closer. I won't bite you." I was just - there was sooo much attraction and sooo much . I want to say love, but it wasn't love at that point. You know, it was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced. It terrified me . But once again, the force field of our love overrode any issues that would arise from my belief systems about, you know, "It should be going different than it is. He should be behaving differently than he is."

On why, after having been kept silent by whatever agreement she had with Edwards, she can speak now: I feel comfortable talking now, because Johnny went public and made a statement admitting paternity. I didn't feel like I could ever speak until he did that. Because had I spoken, I would have emasculated him. And I could not emasculate him. Also, it is not my desire to teach my daughter that when Mommy's upset with Daddy, you take matters into your own hands and fix Daddy's mistakes. Which I view as one of the biggest problems in all female-and-male relationships.

On whether Edwards's life is ruined: You know, it's so fascinating to me how people perceive things. Everyone talks about how Johnny has fallen from grace. In reality, he's fallen to grace . I said I could help him. Which I really believed I could. And quite frankly - well, depending on your perspective, I really have.

On Elizabeth: Most of his mistakes or errors in judgment were because of his fear of the wrath of Elizabeth. He's allowed himself to be pushed into a lot of things that he wouldn't normally do because of Elizabeth's story line. And the spin that she wants to put out there. He was emasculated. And you know, the wrath of Elizabeth is a mighty wrath . Oh, my God, I have such compassion for her. I really do.

Check out Rielle Hunter's GQ photos below.