A sex tape starring two-time presidential wannabe John Edwards and his baby mama is worth a pile of cash — but it’s not for sale, according to the former aide who has the salacious video.
“We’ve been offered gigantic amounts of money and we’ve said no,” onetime Edwards loyalist Andrew Young said yesterday.
Young — whose new book, “The Politician,” reveals stunning details of the coverup of Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter and their love child — declined to say who offered a deal.
“I could not have told this story without including the sex tape,” Young said in a “Good Morning America” interview yesterday.
Young said the tape has been in a safe-deposit box. He said he kept the video, as well as voicemail messages from Edwards, to back up his account of the stupefying story.
Hunter last week got a temporary restraining order in North Carolina for Young to turn over a “very private and personal” video she claims was shot in 2006.
Young has yet to turn over the footage, which he says he found “mangled” in a box Hunter left at a house she used to share with Young and his wife.
“I’m not clear anything she’s asking for is hers,” Young told GMA.
Young has said his tape was shot in 2008 and shows Edwards in a sex romp with his very pregnant mistress. Quinn, Hunter’s daughter with Edwards, is now 2.
Meanwhile, Young also said he got spooked after he told Edwards he was finished helping cover up the Hunter scandal.
“For several months, I used to get up at 3 a.m. and walk around the house with a baseball bat and a knife,” Young told GMA.
The tension hit a high point when, Young said, Edwards showed up and insisted he take a car ride “out in the middle of nowhere” to talk.
During the ride, “all I could think about was Vince Foster,” Young said.
Foster is the former President Bill Clinton aide who killed himself in a Washington, DC, park. His death had conspiracy theorists speculating that he was killed to cover up a White House scandal.
Asked whether he personally feared Edwards would harm him, Young said no.
“But,” he said, “I was scared, genuinely scared, for me and my family.”