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Did childhood abuse make Jesse James cheat? Ex step mom calls his claims “appalling”
UPDATE:
In an video interview posted on Radaronline.com, Jesse James’ dad says his heart was broke when he heard his son make abuse allegations on Nightline Tuesday.
Larry James denied ever beating his son, the soon-to-be ex husband of actress Sandra Bullock.
“I would never hurt my son for all the tea in China,” James says emotionally. “There’s nothing, I would have died. I would have never let anyone hurt my kids.”
Jesse James is a big fat liar, according to his former step mom.
Janina James Coan told TMZ that Sandra Bullock’s soon-to-be ex lied to America during this “Nightline” interview.
James claimed he entered rehab following revelations of his affairs mainly to deal with issues of childhood abuse.
“I was always scared,” James said in the interview on Tuesday. “I never had a chance to be a kid.”
James said his father beat his “ass good a bunch of times,” adding that his career and public life is a smoke screen to hid the fact that he is “a scared, abused kid, a 7-year-old.”
James said his dad once chased him in the dark when he was kid. When James fell and broke his arm, James said his father laughed at him and called him a dummy.
“Sunny (his daughter) is the age that I was when my dad broke my arm,” James said red faced and crying.
James said he was a terrorized kid, fearing his father’s next move.
Janina James Coan told TMZ she was “appalled” by what Jesse James said about his father, Larry James.
“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 said, citing trouble Jesse James got into as a teen.
The father and son haven’t gotten along since James was 16 and his father reported him to police for allegedly robbing a Fotomat.
Jesse James said his affairs and destructive ways weren’t about trying to hurt his soon-to-be ex wife Sandra Bullock.
“Its about trying to push someone away I thought was going to leave anyway,” he said.
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By Kathy
May 26, 2010 2:49 PM | Link to this
What constitutes as abuse today was just “old fashioned child rearing” back in the day. I witnessed it a my home. My father would not call himself an abuser but by today’s standards taking a 1 inch thick wooden paddle with holes drilled out and spanking a child would be considered child abuse. I feel for the guy. He has lost just about everything he held dear to him. That is punishment enough. We need to move on and let the healing begin.
By First Hand
May 26, 2010 3:07 PM | Link to this
I know first hand what it’s like to be abused by a parent, and I can say that I wholeheartedly believe what he said to be truth. His emotions appeared VERY real. Are we going to take the word of the “ex-Step Mom” who has surfaced now?
By Max
May 26, 2010 3:43 PM | Link to this
This is about as lame as a ‘defense’ as can be mounted from James’ PR spinners. Going to rehab to deal with ‘childhood abuse?’ Yeah, right, James is the victim here….LOL…..His emotional appeal for sympathy comes after losing most of everything. Man up, Jesse, and go fix yourself before whimpering in the media!
By Max
May 26, 2010 3:44 PM | Link to this
This is about as lame as a ‘defense’ as can be mounted from James’ PR spinners. Going to rehab to deal with ‘childhood abuse?’ Yeah, right, James is the victim here….LOL…..His emotional appeal for sympathy comes after losing most of everything. Man up, Jesse, and go fix yourself before whimpering in the media!
By a grownup
May 26, 2010 4:13 PM | Link to this
please grow up jesse—you have kids of your own and should be an adult—just admit you were a selfish jerk and didn’t think you would get caught.Your excuses do not make up for the embarrassment you caused your wife and kids.
By Rue
May 26, 2010 4:28 PM | Link to this
He said, “Its about trying to push someone away I thought was going to leave anyway.” Who is he kidding? Sandra Bullock couldn’t sing his praises enough when she was accepting her awards. What a shmuck. MAN UP.
By GiveMeABreak
May 26, 2010 5:56 PM | Link to this
Kathy and FirstHand - It’s people like you who make it possible for jerks like this to go on TV and spew this kind of crap. He knows that there are spineless, whiney people like you out there who will fall for it and feel sorry for him. I’ll bet Sandra isn’t falling for it though! He’s just trying to salvage anything that might be left of his reputation…and now it’s at his Father’s expense. That jerk doesn’t care who he hurts.
By candee
May 26, 2010 6:32 PM | Link to this
excuse abuse, tha’t what it is.
By Paul
May 26, 2010 8:03 PM | Link to this
Give it a rest! Boo hoo, daddy spanked me, so I had to cheat on my wife. We all make choices and this guy needs to man up and take full responsibility for his actions. Blaming it on his childhood it about as lame as it gets. Poor me is all I’m hearing and we wouldn’t be hearing that if he hadn’t been caught! You’re an adulterer Jesse, plain and simple and it was a choice, not a result. If Sandra buys this excuse, she should seek help!
By KC
May 26, 2010 10:17 PM | Link to this
The guy’s just a dumba$$
By Red-headed Step Child
May 26, 2010 10:20 PM | Link to this
My name says it all. I got the snot beat out of me all my life! I got punched in the mouth in 7th grade by my step-dad for ACCIDENTALLY closing my little sister’s finger in a door & still have the scar to prove it! I’ve also been faithfully married for almost 15 years & very rarely have smacked our kids with an open hand. He’d done better to blame it on an addiction! Oh wait, that excuse has already been used…
By The things people say...
May 26, 2010 10:42 PM | Link to this
O please! Childhood abuse didn’t make him cheat….he’s a whore, just like Tiger and Charlie and all the rest of those can’t keep-in-my-pants pansies. Don’t get me started!
By Poorwiddlebaby
May 26, 2010 10:51 PM | Link to this
I guess having a body covered in tats and acting like a tuff guy on tv doesn’t make you a man after all. Who’da thunk it??? WAAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhh. What a cry baby. Grow up and be half the man you try to act like. What a little boy
By Jesse IS a dummy
May 26, 2010 11:16 PM | Link to this
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Jesse, your daddy was right - you ARE a dummy! What sort of idiot would cheat on a woman like Sandra? You deserve another good @$$ whooping. You pea-brained pansie Village People wannabe!
By Sissy Alert!
May 26, 2010 11:32 PM | Link to this
“His emotions appeared VERY real.” “His emotions appeared VERY real.” What has happened to men? Are we raising a generation of eunichs? Oh, but his emotions appeared VERY real. Oh, his emotions appeared VERY real. Get some testosterone shots you little pimple-faced momma’s boy.
By Huh, Can I?
May 26, 2010 11:36 PM | Link to this
If I get some dorky tatoos, lisp, and change my name to that of some low-life scum outlaw, can I have a hot chick, too?
By Its a freak show
May 26, 2010 11:41 PM | Link to this
Anybody would would quote George Michelle ain’t right. This guy sounds like a homely fat pimple-picking teenager who’s never had a date. Probably can’t even get a dog to lick his hand if covers it in Alpo. He probably has quite a stack of magazines.
By Aisha Whatley
May 26, 2010 11:46 PM | Link to this
Sandra please watch over your son. Alot of men whom have been abused, use their abuse as an excuse to become abusers them selves. I would even set up private cameras just to keep an eye on things.
By Get a Life
May 26, 2010 11:56 PM | Link to this
That’s crap, Whatley. You feminist weenie whiney victim wannabe.
By Susie Wherely
May 26, 2010 11:59 PM | Link to this
That’s a pile of holstein hoo-hoo, Whatley. What a feministist weenie whiney victim wannabee! The days of false victimization are coming to a reckoning. Watch what happens to this bozo James.
By Jesse Is A Dick
May 27, 2010 1:08 AM | Link to this
Name says it all.
By Jesse Is A D ick
May 27, 2010 1:09 AM | Link to this
Name says it all.
By Jessie Is A D ick
May 27, 2010 1:13 AM | Link to this
See name for thoughts.
By kimo franz
May 27, 2010 5:39 AM | Link to this
The dude is saying he has no free will. Maybe est or Scientology will help.
By squeak
May 27, 2010 7:37 AM | Link to this
Has Jesse had sex since he fessed up?
By db
May 27, 2010 9:00 AM | Link to this
what a sniveling crybaby, boo hoo, i’m a tattooed whiner, and bad actor.
By Unbelievable
May 27, 2010 11:50 AM | Link to this
What a bunch of low-life idiots on this blog board. All those who are calling people WHINERS for speaking up about being abused need to go get help. You probably think it’s OK to treat others like garbage and take out your anger on them, don’t you? Get an F’in clue!
By You're kidding Right?
May 27, 2010 1:44 PM | Link to this
Unbelievable - YOU get an F’in clue! Adults should take responsibility for their own actions…maybe you’ve heard of that concept???? Only a whiney jerk would even think of blaming something that happened 30+years ago, for this kind of behavior. And ONLY whiney morons like you would fall for it! No one condones child abuse, but this jerk is NOT the abused…….he’s the abuser.
By Open minded adult
May 27, 2010 3:24 PM | Link to this
I am so sick of these so called “men” saying they have a sex addiction. I have never heard of so much crap in my life. Why don’t these men MAN UP and tell the truth. Why don’t they admit they are a holes and are very selfish men. They aren’t thinking of NO ONE else but themselves.
By Grypie
May 27, 2010 7:03 PM | Link to this
Gee, I remember when Jesse talked on his O.C.C show how he was a troubled youth, maybe his daddy did whip his AS*, he probably deserved it, I don’t even think he completed High School, boo-hoo Jesse YOU *ucked up accept it like a man, you have noone to blame but yourself for letting a skank get in between you and your soon tobe ex-wife!! loser!
By Grypie
May 27, 2010 7:03 PM | Link to this
Gee, I remember when Jesse talked on his O.C.C show how he was a troubled youth, maybe his daddy did whip his AS*, he probably deserved it, I don’t even think he completed High School, boo-hoo Jesse YOU *ucked up accept it like a man, you have noone to blame but yourself for letting a skank get in between you and your soon tobe ex-wife!! loser!
By Open Mind = Empty Head
May 27, 2010 9:58 PM | Link to this
Man up? If these guys were real men they would not be doing it. They’re clearly thinking of not just themselves - but it’s not their wives they’re thinking of. We need to stop blaming them men alone. What about the ho trash who go after these celebrities? They are garbage. All they want is to have that trophy. What scum!
By It Always Takes TWO
May 27, 2010 10:17 PM | Link to this
Open Mind = Empty Head - Yep, I’m sure he was hit on by many skanks. And I’ll be Sandra was hit on by just as many trashy men. But there’s a difference isn’t there….she told them to get lost, just like dumb a** Jesse could have. It takes pride in ones self, and a committment to the wedding vows. Two things Jesse doesn’t have in him. He’s just as skanky as the skuzzy broads he was with. Makes no difference who makes the first move.
By Shelly
May 27, 2010 10:51 PM | Link to this
The first thing I thought when I heard that he was claiming his dad broke his arm was this: why should anyone believe him when he cheats and lies? I think it is horrible that he is painting his father out as some abusive person 30 years after the fact, just to take the heat off his bad behavior. Did dad beat his butt? Possibly. What if ex-wife is telling the truth (and why would she lie if she is the father’s ex? She has nothing to gain) and Jesse is a lying sack of s**t? I, personally, don’t believe him. People who were abused by their family members should not necessarily take his side in this. This is too much like girls who yell rape falsely. They harm true rape victims, who have to deal with people not believing them. Jesse sounds like a lying scum bag to me.
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June 6, 2010 3:13 PM | Link to this
hey jessie want some cheese with that whine? Man Up Dude
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