Speaking publicly for the first time about her controversial affair with John Edwards, Rielle Hunter speaks about the real deal about their relationship in the new issue of GQ magazine.

Hunter, who was initially hired by Edwards in 2006 as a campaign videographer, describes their first night together as having a “magnetic force field.”

Asked about their “love,” Hunter, 45, tells GQ, “I know he loves me. I have never had any doubt at all about that. We love each other very much. And that hasn’t changed, and I believe that will be till death do us part. The love doesn’t go away. It’s unconditional.”

Now about that “magnetic force field.”

Hunter describes her first night with Edwards when they slept together for the first time. It was in February 2006. “I had never experienced anything like what was flowing between us. I sat on the other side of the room. I wouldn’t go near him. It was just this, this magnetic force field like I had never experienced. It terrified me. Absolutely terrified me.”

(story & image from People)