"He should not have run," Edwards writes in the book, which hits bookstores on May 12.

While the Daily News, which reportedly obtained a copy of the book pre-publication, reports that Resilience does offer further details about Mr. Edwards’s fall from grace, Mrs. Edwards did not write a cutthroat book that harshly attacks those who betrayed her. In fact, Edwards does not once use the name of John Edwards’s mistress, Rielle Hunter. But she describes the aspiring videographer as "pathetic." The book also talks about her husband’s lies and her immediate reaction to his confession of betrayal.

"I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up," writes Edwards, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer.

The paper also reports more book details:

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.

Mrs. Edwards has been criticized for standing by her husband’s side. However, she and her husband of nearly 32 years have endured a lifetime of tragic adversities together. Their son Wade was killed in a freak car accident when he was only 16 years old. Days before the 2004 presidential election — when Edwards was running for vice president, Elizabeth was diagnosed with breast cancer. During the campaign, as she supported her husband, she was undergoing rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. In 2007, she was told the cancer had returned, spread and was untreatable.

On January 30, 2008, Edwards suddenly withdrew from the Democratic presidential nomination race. In early August, after a string of stories in the National Enquirer, he confessed his affair to the public. His wife, though, had known of his extramarital activities for nearly two years. His campaign exit came exactly one month before Hunter gave birth to baby Frances Quinn, who many suspect is Edwards’s baby.