Jesse James has a new video interview with In Depth with Graham Bensinger. Many outlets are running with the headline of James whining that he lost “my son that I adopted.” He’s referring to Sandra Bullock’s adopted son, Louis, whom Sandra introduced to the press in April, 2010 after keeping the infant under wraps since January.
Sandra and Jesse’s marriage imploded on March 10, 2010, just two days after she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side. That’s the day when, according to Jesse’s memoir, he broke the news to Sandra that he had cheated on her. Sandra’s publicist had told him that In Touch was about to break the the story of Jesse’s first known mistress, Michelle “Bombshell” McGee. In Jesse’s account, he admitted the affair to Sandra (we learned later that he’d had multiple affairs) she cried a bit, stuck her sunglasses on, and then walked out the door, never to return again.
Nowhere in James’ memoir, published in May, 2011, does he reveal that he had adopted a son with Sandra or that he was particularly bonded with the baby. He did have lengthy passages about the births of his children with two of his other ex wives. He later claimed that he excluded Louis from the memoir because “talking about Louis almost felt too intimate.” In this interview, James claims that losing Louis was the hardest part of his divorce from Sandra. He’s done multiple other interviews and has barely mentioned Louis. Here’s some of what he said in his pissy little baby voice.
On the day he broke the news to Sandy
Yeah… that whole thing just ended bad and it was like I made mistakes and did stuff that I shouldn’t have. I handled the situation not the way I should have and you know I got divorced and lost a kid a adopted because of it so….
“What was the hardest part of the whole situation for you?”
I think losing my son that I adopted. For sure. Not being able to see him and see him grow up and all that stuff… whether that’s fair, whether I should have lost a kid due to infidelity…which I don’t think anybody ever does but I think with “Hollywood Law” that’s totally fair so.
On how he handled it with his kids
It was obviously an emotional time for the older kids… They didn’t have a real close relationship with her so… I just told them the truth… the painful part was about Louis, who we adopted.
On the paparazzi
It was pretty bad I beat the shit out of a bunch of ‘em. Just wait til the night until they didn’t see me coming. It’s fair game… you just got to be sneaky about it so you don’t get sued.
On adopting Louis
As bad as stuff was between us we adopted a kid and things got kinda good for a little while. We had that kid to focus on and boom it was over in 24 hours. Gone. Done. So, the relationship part I was able to kind of [put aside]. I had to stand up to [the media]… I took 100% of it right on the chin. Nobody does that. Everybody denies it…
Claims that Sandra’s publicist made Nazi photo scandal worse
I think the adultery part was totally fair… I deserved what I had coming. I think the whole Nazi part of it wasn’t fair. I think it was fueled by her and her publicist. They knew that stuff wasn’t true and they, like, you know someone had sold that picture to US Magazine. Obviously I’m joking… they didn’t try to like [deny it]. Her exact quote to US Magazine was like ‘that’s not the man I married.’… poured gasoline on it and made it erupt.
On why he’s not racist
That stuff kind of hurts me because man I grew up in like an all black neighborhood and we adopted a black son. You know? Like not because he was black. My requirement for the adoption was, like, ‘hey I want the kid that needs us the most.’
[From video on sports.yahoo.com]
He also made a bunch of excuses about how he was “surrounded by [a] negative influence,” as if that somehow explained his serial cheating. We’ve heard this “took it on the chin” b.s. from Jesse before. Again, I don’t remember him talking about Louis much in previous interviews. He did mention Louis in his response to Sandra’s divorce filing. So did he finally become comfortable enough to admit that he misses his adopted son, or has he seen that Sandra has moved on and is he trying to get a dig in at her? Sandra walked away from his cheating ass like a boss and didn’t stick around to hear any of his excuses.
Also, Sandra did have a close relationship with Jesse’s three older children. His claim that “They didn’t have a real close relationship with her” rings hollow. She was said to be particularly close to Sunny, who was just six when Sandra and Jesse split and had been living with them for over a year at that point. The kids were even said to be living with her after the news of Jesse’s cheating broke.
Here are photos of Sandra out with Jesse’s kids in March, 2011.
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