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John Edwards is having a Maury Povich moment. (Wikimedia Images)

John Edwards issss the father! Apparently, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina and two-time Democratic presidential candidate is supposed to make a public admission that he is the father of Rielle Hunter's 18-month-old daughter, Frances, soon. There is currently an ongoing criminal investigation into whether his campaign paid Hunter hush money to keep their affair and subsequent baby drama on the DL.

Edwards has admitted to an affair with Hunter while his wife was being treated for cancer, but has in the past, denied the paternity of the child. Edwards claims that the affair ended in 2006 and in the same year, his campaign paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for "work" as well as another $14,086 in 2007. The National Enquirer broke the story of Edwards' affair and subsequent love child with Hunter in 2008.

Hunter agreed to testify to a federal grand jury investigating the money paid to her company.