The affair that doomed John Edwards' political career also caused his wife Elizabeth to vomit in a bathroom when the cheating husband first confessed his betrayal.
"I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up," Elizabeth Edwards writes in a new memoir, an advance copy of which was obtained by the New York Daily News.
In the aptly-titled "Resilience," scheduled to be published May 12, Edwards, 59, says her husband of more than 30 years admitted to the betrayal just days after declaring his run for president in 2006. She says she wanted him to drop out of the race to protect the family from media scrutiny, but stood by his side anyway for almost a year -- until John Edwards went public when the National Enquirer reported he was the father of videographer Rielle Hunter's baby daughter.
Elizabeth Edwards never identifies Hunter by name and does not address the paternity issue. But she says that while her life may be tragic, Hunter's is "pathetic."
Perhaps even more pathetic was how easy it was seduce John Edwards, according to the memoir.
"You are so hot," Hunter told him one night outside a fancy New York hotel, Elizabeth writes.
The mother of Edwards' four children, who is sick with cancer, also reveals that even when John first confessed, he lied by saying it was only a one-time thing, The News reported.
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Despite the humiliation, Elizabeth writes of forgiveness and the love she maintains for her man.
She is adamant of one thing, however: "He should not have run."
