NEWSWEEK WRITER: JOHN EDWARDS' MISTRESS OFTEN BADMOUTHED ELIZABETH EDWARDS

b>John Edwards' mistress repeatedly dissed his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth Edwards during their affair, according to a Newsweek writer.
Reporter Jonathan Darman — who had used Hunter, 44, as a source — has written about his encounters with Hunter.
Darman says he asked Hunter about Elizabeth Edwards at a 2006 lunch.
"She does not give off good energy," Hunter told him, saying that she only met Elizabeth once. "She didn't make eye contact with me."
When Hunter was axed from a $100,000-plus gig filming "Webisodes" on Edwards' campaign, she slammed Elizabeth again, according to Darman. "Someday, the truth about her is going to come out," Hunter told him.
Hunter also told Darman that she wanted to pitch Sex and the City creator Darren Star "a genius idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them."
Darman recalls that when he with Hunter last summer (long after John Edwards claims the fling had ended) she told him, "I'm in love."
"I asked, 'Who with?'" Darmo writes. "'I can't tell you,' she said, 'but maybe someday we'll all be friends.'"
Hunter also had a habit of talking New Age babble with Darman.
Darman says she once told him that John Edwards was "an old soul" with a "special energy," comparing him to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
"Her purpose on this Earth, she said, was to help raise awareness about all this, to help the unenlightened become better reflections of their true, repressed selves," Darman writes.
When Darman asked Hunter if she spoke about this topic with John Edwards, she replied, "All the time."
Freelance writer Sarah Miller also recalls meeting Hunter years ago, describing her as very ambitious.
"I am going to be famous," Hunter declared, according to Miller, who writes about their encounter in The Los Angeles Times. "Rich and famous. I am going to meet a rich, powerful man."
Miller says Hunter told her she would accomplish this goal by "manifesting it."
Edwards admitted his affair Friday in an interview with ABC News. He denies a National Enquirer report that he fathered Hunter's child (and even offered to take a paternity test). But Hunter, who did not list a father on the infant's birth certificate, has said she will not require him to do so to protect her baby's privacy.

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