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Elizabeth Edwards may have terminally cancer, but she’s not fading away into the sunset quietly – she’s apparently determined to take down Rielle Hunter.

On Thursday’s Oprah Winfrey Show, Elizabeth once gain slammed the mistress of her husband John – this time on television. The gloves are coming off.

Elizabeth recalled to Winfrey how Rielle Hunter – whom she never mentioned by name picked up her husband in a hotel, telling him, “You are so hot.”

It was as awkward hearing the terminally ill, scorned wife recall and try to say this as it probably was to have witnessed it happen in the first place.

“There is no excuse for women to do this,” said Edwards, whose book, Resilience, is coming out soon. “Women need to have respect for other women.”

“You can’t just knock on that door and say you’re out, I’m in,” added the mother of three. “If you admire that life, you can’t just take it. Build your own.”

Elizabeth also discussed whether John Edwards is the father of Hunter’s one-year-old daughter. Rielle now reportedly wants a paternity test after basically taking the fall for John and falling off the face of the planet after the story broke.

“I’ve seen a picture of the baby,” she told Oprah. “I have no idea. It doesn’t look like my children, but I don’t have any idea.”

John and Elizabeth say they working on repairing their 31-year marriage.

Asked if they are in a better place, John told Winfrey, “I feel like we’re getting to it. It’s not over, but we’re getting to it. I love her. I care about her.”

Says Elizabeth, “It’s an ongoing process of finding your feet again. You know, finding, sort of retelling your story to yourself. There’s a lot of adjustments to make. And when you talk about trust, I think that’s probably the most difficult hurdle.”

Follow the jump for some video highlights of Edwards’ interview

 
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