The bitterness is going to act as a catalyst for the cancer.
I’m no John Edwards fan by ANY means; but I hear that Elizabeth was your typical nagging, alpha female; loving the limelight but now playing the victim. Personally, I’m tired of all these biomoms assuming that just because the guy is a jerk to them that they will be a jerk to the children. Leave the children out of it. It’s that type of thinking that goes hand in hand with parental alienation which is what she is doing. Divorce the guy, take all his money then take his children away from him. Classic.