Edwards’ wife ‘threw up’ at news of affair

Elizabeth Edwards writes in a memoir being published this month that news of her husband’s affair made her vomit in a bathroom.

“I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up,” Edwards, 59, writes in her book, “Resilience.”

Edwards says her husband, John, admitted the betrayal just days after declaring in 2006 that he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination. She says she wanted him to drop out to protect the family from media scrutiny, but stood by his side anyway.

“He should not have run,” she writes.

An advance copy of the book was obtained by the New York Daily News, which reported on it Thursday.

It is her second memoir. Her first, “Saving Graces,” mostly focused on how she coped with the 1996 death of the couple’s son Wade, 16, and her ongoing battle with breast cancer. She is terminally ill.

John Edwards went public with the affair in August after the National Enquirer reported he was the father of videographer Rielle Hunter’s infant daughter. He has denied paternity. His wife doesn’t address the paternity issue in her book.

Elizabeth Edwards writes that Hunter’s pickup line was “You are so hot” and that when her husband first confessed, he lied and said he only had sex with Hunter once.

The original confession “left most of the truth out,” she writes.

The memoir never identifies Hunter by name.

But Edwards writes that while her own life may be tragic, Hunter’s is “pathetic.”

John Edwards was laying the groundwork for the 2008 presidential campaign when he hired Hunter to shoot videos of him in 2006.

The Edwardses have been married more than 30 years and have three children -- Cate, Jack and Emma Claire.