John Edwards Witness Feared He Would Be Shot
The first witness in the John Edwards trial ended nearly a week of testimony by breaking down on the stand and by telling the court today that the last time he spoke to Edwards he feared he was going to be shot.
Andrew Young has spent nearly four contentious days on the stand detailing how he helped Edwards hide his mistress Rielle Hunter in 2007 and 2008 while Edwards pursued the Democratic presidential nomination.
The cross examination has been grueling with Edwards’ defense team depicting him as a greedy liar.
Young today described the last conversation he had with Edwards during a car ride on Aug. 18, 2008 in a wooded area.
By this time their friendship had been severely strained by the extraordinary efforts to keep the secret of Hunter’s pregnancy.
During their conversation Young told Edwards, “If he wasn’t going to tell the truth about what transpired, then I was going to tell the truth.”
Young told Edwards that he had saved voicemails, text messages, emails, photographs as well as a sex video of Edwards and Hunter.
Young said that Edwards was sweaty and “at one point I was scared for my life.”