Jesse James Nightline interview, the complete video
Jesse James spoke out in a Nightline interview last night, finally breaking his silence about the marriage, infidelity and divorce from Sandra Bullock.
Jesse told Nightline that he thinks he is the most hated man in the world right now. He’s probably right.
In the Nightline interview he spoke of meeting Sandra for the first time. He says he assumed she would be “a Hollywood bitch” but that after he met her it couldn’t have been further from the truth. He says it was “like being hit in the head with a brick.”
Speaking of bricks, Sandra probably felt like she was hit with a brick when Jesse sat her down and confessed what he had done at about the same time that Michelle Bombshell McGee sold her story to InTouch magazine.
Jesse says he thinks Sandra had her suspicions initially but that he lied to cover up his infidelities. He refused to give Nightline a mistress count, saying what matters most is that he destroyed a perfect marriage to the perfect wife.
Jesse James told Nightline that rehab brought back painful memories of being abused as a kid. He blames some of what he has done on the abuse. He says that inside he still feels like that abused kid. “Bike builder, Monster Garage TV star, all that stuff is a huge smokescreen so that people won’t see that I’m a scared, abused kid, a seven-year-old.”
He describes to Nightline one account of the abuse where he was being chased by his father in the dark: “I tripped over this little low fence wire and snapped my wrist and I remember my dad laughed at me when I hit the ground and called me a dummy. I was petrified of my dad. It wasn’t so much getting the s*** beat out of me or getting my arm broken or getting kicked or whatever or punched, it was the in-between time. It was the fear of that happening again. I was a terrorized kid, you know, and, I mean, it’s really tough for me to think about now because, Sunny is the age that I was when my dad broke my arm.”
Sunny is James’ 7-year-old daughter. When he spoke of his daughter he teared up and couldn’t speak.
Jesse James’ stepmother, Janina James Coan, and his father, Larry, are both denying the alleged abuse.
Coan says, “Larry was the most caring father, the kindest father who would do anything for anybody. He loved Jesse to death and would brag about him all the time.”
She did admit that Jesse and his father did not get along, but that their relationship went in the tank after Jesse robbed a Fotomart (remember those?) and his father turned him in. She also says that Jesse James got most of his injuries from motorcross, not abuse.
Not sure if I am buying stepmom’s story. Jesse was pretty emotional, I don’t think you can fake that. And spouses of abusers often cover their partner’s tracks…
In the final Nightline interview video, Jesse tells Nightline about the kids, the adoption, the divorce and his love for his family.
This guy sends out very weird vibes. On the one hand you believe him and feel sorry for him, I believe he was physically abused, but on the other hand he scares me; he has very cold, dead eyes. The eyes of a psychopath!
I feel bad for both of them. I have been a fan of Jesse for years and years, and still am. What happens in his personal life is just that, his personal life. It doesn’t change the way I look at him or his skill as a fabricator. I also can sympathize with him for this situation, as I had something similar. Mine wasn’t to the full extent that his was, and I obviously wasn’t in the public eye either, but the end result is the same, I lost the woman I loved most on this planet. I didn’t have a physical relationship outside of ours, but I did find myself talking to girls online and texting them, much like he did, and for the same reasons. It’s actually pretty amazing how similar we are, right down to the fact that he and I are both big tattooed white guys, and that the people looking at our situation wouldn’t see past that. He has to deal with that from the media and America, I had to deal with it from my ex’s friends who all wanted me out of the picture and made sure it happened. I really don’t know how he has been able to deal with the papparazi as well as he has, because I think I would have snapped a long time ago. All in all, I feel for him, and I feel for Sandra as well, because I took a long time to view what I had done through the eyes of my ex and realized how much I hurt her, and to this day I haven’t met anyone who even comes close to making me as happy as she did. He didn’t feel that he deserved what he had, and that Sandra was too good for him, and that’s exactly how I felt when I did what I did, so I think the media and public should stop ridiculing him, because the bottom line is, that happened between he and his wife, he didn’t cheat on the American public.
I, like anyone else right away thought the worst of Jesse. But after watching his interview, it has brought a better understanding. I can honestly say that I feel for the guy. As the wife of a man who went through the same thing…abuse as a child, I know what it does to a person. And they deal with it by self destructing. My husband also felt the same way, my dad never loved me, why would anyone else. It is truly a sad situation for both him and Sandra. I genuinely believe he did not do this to intentionally hurt her or the children. It’s just too bad that they happened to be a celebrity couple and are caught in the limelight. There are many men out there who were abused as a child in many ways and deal with it in the same manner. They just either happen to have not been caught or you don’t hear about it because they are not celebrities. I feel for you Jesse. And I think it is great you went out to seek help. Just unfortunate that it was after all this happened.
This guy sends out very weird vibes. On the one hand you believe him and feel sorry for him, I believe he was physically abused, but on the other hand he scares me; he has very cold, dead eyes. The eyes of a psychopath!
I feel bad for both of them. I have been a fan of Jesse for years and years, and still am. What happens in his personal life is just that, his personal life. It doesn’t change the way I look at him or his skill as a fabricator. I also can sympathize with him for this situation, as I had something similar. Mine wasn’t to the full extent that his was, and I obviously wasn’t in the public eye either, but the end result is the same, I lost the woman I loved most on this planet. I didn’t have a physical relationship outside of ours, but I did find myself talking to girls online and texting them, much like he did, and for the same reasons. It’s actually pretty amazing how similar we are, right down to the fact that he and I are both big tattooed white guys, and that the people looking at our situation wouldn’t see past that. He has to deal with that from the media and America, I had to deal with it from my ex’s friends who all wanted me out of the picture and made sure it happened. I really don’t know how he has been able to deal with the papparazi as well as he has, because I think I would have snapped a long time ago. All in all, I feel for him, and I feel for Sandra as well, because I took a long time to view what I had done through the eyes of my ex and realized how much I hurt her, and to this day I haven’t met anyone who even comes close to making me as happy as she did. He didn’t feel that he deserved what he had, and that Sandra was too good for him, and that’s exactly how I felt when I did what I did, so I think the media and public should stop ridiculing him, because the bottom line is, that happened between he and his wife, he didn’t cheat on the American public.
I, like anyone else right away thought the worst of Jesse. But after watching his interview, it has brought a better understanding. I can honestly say that I feel for the guy. As the wife of a man who went through the same thing…abuse as a child, I know what it does to a person. And they deal with it by self destructing. My husband also felt the same way, my dad never loved me, why would anyone else. It is truly a sad situation for both him and Sandra. I genuinely believe he did not do this to intentionally hurt her or the children. It’s just too bad that they happened to be a celebrity couple and are caught in the limelight. There are many men out there who were abused as a child in many ways and deal with it in the same manner. They just either happen to have not been caught or you don’t hear about it because they are not celebrities. I feel for you Jesse. And I think it is great you went out to seek help. Just unfortunate that it was after all this happened.