John Edwards’ baby mama wants her sex tape back.
Edwards’ ex-mistress Rielle Hunter got a temporary restraining order against his former aide Andrew Young, to keep the tell-all turncoat from making public a “very private and personal” videotape she made with the disgraced politician.
“I believe that Andrew Young may publish the video to others [and] is presently engaged in efforts to sell the video or a copy of the video to others,” Hunter wrote in a court affidavit.
The restraining order, granted Thursday in North Carolina, came as RadarOnline.com reported that Young had been shopping a steamy flick.
It reportedly stars a well-endowed Edwards and a naked, pregnant Hunter in a romp just before the January 2008 Iowa caucus.
Young — whose searing book about Edwards, “The Politician,” hits stores today — has so far declined to hand over his tape to law enforcement.
In her court papers, Hunter said she’s afraid Young will also try to sell two other videos and several photographs she claims he took without permission from a box of her old belongings.
It’s unclear whether Young’s tape — which he says Hunter threw away — is the same one she wants back.
In her court filing, Hunter said she “authored” an intimate recording in September 2006.
Three months later, she said, “the decision was made that the video should be destroyed.”
Hunter gave birth to Frances Quinn, Edwards’ daughter, more than a year later, in 2008.
The other two videos, also from 2006, contain campaign footage, Hunter said.
Meanwhile, Hunter also has sued Young and his wife, Cheri, for invasion of privacy.
And Edwards also yesterday struck out against Young, enlisting help from two lawyers who helped clear members of the Duke University lacrosse team of rape charges in 2006.
The lawyers, Wade Smith and James Cooney III, said they haven’t read Young’s book, but blasted it as inaccurate.
“From media reports, it is obvious that there are many allegations which are simply false,” the legal team said in a press release.
“We urge extreme caution by everyone involved.”
Young’s book serves up dishy details of a stupefying — and expensive — plot by the power-hungry Edwards to hide his affair and love child from the public and his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth.
Edwards got Young to initially claim he was the baby’s father. He then blew through at least $6 million of donor money moving the aide and his family around the country with Hunter, the book claims.
Yesterday, a longtime Edwards staffer told Gawker.com that the revelations in Young’s book “seem pretty consistent” with his experience as an Edwards lackey.
He even backed up Young’s claims about the pol’s persnickety beverage choices.
“For the longest time, it was all Sprite Zero,” the insider told Gawker. “And then at one point the word came down [that] he would only drink Diet Orange Sunkist . . . It had to be in cans. It could not be in bottles.”
In his book, Young writes that Edwards switched from Diet Coke to “caseloads” of Sprite and Sunkist after shelling out for plastic surgery and “new teeth” that were susceptible to stains.
Edwards’ other drink of choice was cheap white wine — over ice — which his minions would keep at the ready in a cooler in Edwards’ car.
“He’s so nouveau riche,” the snitch said. “He’s totally a guy with no taste who suddenly came into a lot of money.”