What Really Happened by Rielle Hunter

Author:Rielle Hunter [Hunter, Rielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Benbella Books
Published: 2012-05-23T07:00:00+00:00

Hey, Left you a message a little while ago. I wanted to talk with you because our last conversation left me with a weird feeling. I know this is the last thing you’re thinking about right now but I think for the sake of our friendship, which has always been based on mutual trust and demands openness and honesty to survive, we need to set up some ground rules for going forward. From here on out, as long as this stupid story is alive, I can’t talk to you “between you and me.” We can talk off the record from now until the end of time if you wish and I can give you MY WORD—as a friend, as a journalist, as a human being—that nothing you tell me will ever appear in Newsweek unless you want it to. But the fact remains that I cover John Edwards and I have to be able to talk openly with my bosses about a story that involves him. Even if I’m not involved in our coverage, I can’t conceal information from them, nor do I want to, especially when you’re telling me this whole story is bullshit. I can tell my bosses that anything you say to me is off the record and it can’t show up in our coverage, if we ever choose to pursue this story. But I am required to be open with them about this, and everything else. It’s not that I don’t value our friendship. This is the way I’d have to operate with a story concerning anyone, even a member of my own family. In fact, it IS the way I operate with a member of my own family, my dad. SO considering all that, I understand if you choose not to talk to me in the same way you would another friend. And I understand if you choose not to talk to me at all. That would suck, of course, because I don’t want to lose touch with you, now or ever. And I also think it is in your interest to keep talking to me, because I think this story is total bullshit, while every other journalist in the world starts with the assumption that it’s true. Even if I can’t be completely helpful to you as a friend right now, I can be helpful to you as a journalist, much more helpful than anyone else around. Anyway, I hope you’ve read this far without getting really pissed off or feeling dirty. Please understand that I’m saying all of this not to put distance between us, simply to make sure we preserve total honesty. You’ve got a million other things to think about right now, you don’t need weirdness from me. So I hope I hear from you soon. I’ll be thinking about you, as always. XO J

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