Elizabeth Edwards Sick Over John Edwards and Rielle Hunter Affair

by Tina Kells | April 30, 2009 at 07:31 pm

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Elizabeth Edwards addresses the affair her husband, one-time presidential candidate John Edwards, had with Rielle Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards, a cancer survivor who is still married to John, tells how the news of his affair made her ill and viciously attacks her rival's character.

John Edwards and Rielle Hunter have a child together but that wasn't enough to make Elizabeth Edwards give up on her marriage. She believes in her marriage vows and stood by her husband just as he stood by her through cancer. However, the bitterness and hurt are still apparent.

Cancer has returned for Elizabeth Edwards and this time she is terminal. Her book, Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities will be on shelves May 12, 2009 and may just be the final revenge of a woman humiliated and scorned.

The memoir of Elizabeth Edwards, cancer survivor and wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, hits bookstores May 12. "Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities," is billed by publisher Broadway Books as "an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s biggest challenges."

One of those challenges was dealing with her husband's admission of carrying on an affair. Elizabeth Edwards took the news hard; according to the New York Daily News, which has acquired an advance copy of the book, she writes:

"I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up."

The Daily News has more details from the book:

Hunter initially seduced Edwards using a worn come-on line, Elizabeth writes:

"You are so hot," Hunter told him outside a swank New York hotel. The campaign ultimately paid Hunter $114,000 to produce a batch of short films on his candidacy.

She lashes out at Hunter, now 45, whose name she never actually uses in the book, as a parasitic groupie who invaded the Edwardses' life.

Her own life may be tragic, she concludes, but Hunter's is "pathetic."