By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

In her tell-all new memoir, What Really Happened, John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, says that the first time she had sex with the now disgraced North Carolina politician was the most extraordinary night of her life, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting. 

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

After meeting Edwards at the Regency Hotel in New York City during his run for president, the New Age guru says she only went to his hotel room with the sole intention of helping him with the campaign.

"The connection I felt when I walked in the door had only grown and the amount of energy between us was huge and unstoppable," Hunter reveals in her memoir. "And then a moment came while we were talking when something in my heart clicked and I surrendered. I took off my teacher hat, let go of all my resistance to him and let him lead. And lead he did. He led me toward the most extraordinary night of my life. There was a lot of talk, a lot of laughter and zero sleep."

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported,  during their initial tryst, Hunter claims Edwards told her that he had three other mistresses.

"He told me that he had an entire hidden life that had gone on for decades and that he was currently involved with three different women. One li