By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 08:21 EST, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 17:06 EST, 18 June 2012 Rielle Hunter, the mistress who derailed John Edwards' political career, says she was not the only lover the two-time presidential candidate had outside his marriage. In her explosive new book about her affair with Edwards and the child she had with him, Hunter claims the North Carolina Democrat had two other mistresses while he was with his wife Elizabeth. But, Edwards lied when he first met Hunter, she says, and told her had even more lovers. Hunter seems to excuse Edwards' attacks on the people around him, especially his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, whom she called a 'witch on wheels.'
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For five years, Edwards told Hunter he had three other mistresses across the country
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In fact, she says, he had affairs with two other women, all before their relationship began
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Hunter defends Edwards and blasts his cancer-stricken wife and former aide
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Tell-all book due to be released on June 26
Disgraced: Former senator @placeholder was acquitted on one count of accepting illegal campaign funds and a mistrial was declared on the five other counts