Personal Life
Edwards met John Edwards when they were both law students, and they married on July 30, 1977.
Early in their marriage, the couple had two children: Lucius Wade (known as Wade) (born 1979) and Cate (born 1982). Wade was killed on April 4, 1996, when he lost control of his Jeep while driving from their home in Raleigh to the family's beach house near Wilmington. Three weeks before his death, Wade Edwards was honored by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House as one of ten finalists in an essay contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Voice of America. Wade, accompanied by his parents and his sister, met North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. After Wade died, Helms entered his essay and his obituary into the Congressional Record.
Following Wade's death, the Edwardses decided to have more children, and Elizabeth underwent fertility treatments. They had a daughter, Emma Claire (born 1998), and a son, Jack (born 2000). After John's January 21, 2010, public admission that he fathered a child with another woman, Elizabeth legally separated from him, intending to file for divorce after North Carolina's mandatory one-year separation policy, though she later stated that they had no intent to divorce unless one of them would want to remarry.
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