By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, reveals in her new book What Really Happened, John Edwards Our Daughter And Me, that she snorted cocaine during her 20s and wrote the book to set the record straight for her love child with the disgraced politician, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

As previously reported, Hunter's memoir was rejected by all major publishers and is being released on June 26 by a small Dallas-based company called Ben Bella.

Before becoming a New Age spiritual guru, Hunter spent her 20s snorting cocaine.

"I don't like to think of myself as a stupid person but I have done a lot of things in my life that were just plain stupid. Snorting cocaine is stupid. Snorting cocaine for just under a decade, desperately attempting to recreate the euphoric high from the first line ever snorted is so far beyond stupid it may even qualify as criminal. Fortunately, I recognized this in my twenties and stopped. I then began to devote a huge amount of my time and energy to spiritual growth," Hunter says in the first chapter of the book.

Hunter details her meeting with married John Edwards at the Regency Hotel in New York City in 2006.

"Seated at our new table, I was now directly facing the alleged John Edwards. He looked directly at me, not smiling. I returned his gaze, a