Elizabeth Edwards writes about husband's affair in book, 'Resilience'

N Y Daily News ^ | April 30th 2009, | Celeste Katz

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After the former presidential hopeful confessed his betrayal, Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up."

Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks about her husband's infidelity in her new memoir, "Resilience,".

Despite feeling deeply deceived, Elizabeth Edwards nonetheless publicly stood by her husband's side, lending his candidacy the aura of a warm, loving family life.

But she had actually wanted him to quit the race to protect the family. Edwards admitted the hanky-panky to her days after declaring his candidacy in 2006 - almost a year before the National Enquirer reported it.

She was afraid of the destructive questions Edwards' affair with videographer Rielle Hunter would raise.

"He should not have run," she says.

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."

Even when Edwards confessed to his wife, he lied, claiming he had slipped up just once, Elizabeth writes. His original version of the story "left most of the truth out," she writes.

While Elizabeth still hasn't fully come to terms with her man's roaming, the memoir is laced with a powerful dose of forgiveness.

"I lie in bed, circles under my eyes, my sparse hair sticking in too many directions, and he looks at me as if I am the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. It matters," she writes.

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If there was any justice in the world she would have called the book “HALF”.

"Johneeeee!! I want to talk to yooooooo! What have you done for me lately?!? ....... HALF!!!"

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Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer **************** Still? Is this possible?

She's been dying of the same cancer for the last 20 years.

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I'm afraid I have to say that it seems that the two of them deserve each other.

[Mamzelle]

If I were Elizabeth, I would be making moves to protect the fortunes of my children.

Soon, everything must be shared with the homewrecker. EE is sick and the replacement is Wicked Stepmother who won't look after the interests of the children.

Elizabeth should consider a quick divorce to separate out the assets, so she can be sure that the mistress won't control her children's fate. Then appoint a guardian and executor of those assets. That way, all her estate will be for her own children, not the mistress and bastard.

That may be why hubbie stands around trying to look empathetic. He doesn't want her to divorce, he wants to be a widower.