GREENSBORO, N.C. – In an emotional day of testimony, the wife of John Edwards' former aide said Monday that the politician's plan to have her husband claim paternity of Edwards' love child made her "upset" to the point of screaming -- but that Edwards stepped in to personally convince her to go along.
Cheri Young, who took the witness stand as the Edwards trial enters its second week, described how her husband, Andrew Young, initially claimed paternity of Edwards' love child, which she said was the candidate's idea. She occasionally broke down in tears as she testified in the criminal trial of her husband's former boss.
Young said she was in a McDonald's drive-through when her husband told her about the paternity plan.
"The first thought in my mind was, how in the world could Mr. Edwards ask one more thing of me, of us?" she recalled. "I was mad. I was upset. Of course I said, 'Absolutely Not!' I screamed at him. I cursed at him."
But Young said she eventually agreed to go along with the plan after a telephone conference call with her husband, Edwards and the candidate's mistress, Rielle Hunter.
During that call, Cheri Young said Edwards went into a stump speech, explaining why his presidency would be good for the country.
In court Monday, she described a conversation she had with her husband after the call.
"I told him that I feel like everything had been dumped in my lap, that everyone else was on board but me," Young said. "I didn't want the responsibility of knowing that because I wasn't on board, because I didn't want to try it, the campaign would explode and I'd have to live with that."
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