Nightline is releasing segments of their Jesse James interview in drips and drabs and they’re surely getting plenty of press for it. On Friday we saw a preview of widdle Jessie admitting he cheated, then crying and walking off set. Today we’re hearing more from the 41 year-old motorcycle mogul, including the tidbit that he feels that he was self sabotaging his great life by banging strippers (not his exact terminology) and that he still loves and cares about the wife he so publicly wronged, Sandra Bullock.

Jesse James says he knew Sandra Bullock would catch him cheating sooner or later – and that he wanted to be caught, because deceiving her sickened him.

“When I was doing it, you know, one, I knew it was horrible, it made me feel horrible,” James tells ABC’s Nightline in an interview airing Tuesday. “And two, I knew I would get caught eventually, and I think I wanted to get caught. … It was me trying to self-sabotage my life.”

Asked why he’d hurt someone who was – and he says still is – the most important person in his life, James is at a loss for words. “It’s hard for me to talk about, a little bit, because I still really love her and care about her,” he says.

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But the West Coast Choppers owner, 41, is under no illusions about the level of that hurt. “I’ve spent my whole life with the kids and with her trying to … protect her from everything, but the most hurt she’s ever been caused is by the person that wanted to protect her,” he says.

In an earlier promo for the show, James admits: “I took a pretty amazing life and marriage … and threw it away.”

Allegations of James’s infidelity emerged shortly after Bullock, 45, won an Oscar for her leading role in The Blind Side in March.

In the Nightline interview, James will also address whether Bullock knew anything about his affairs, what he really went to rehab for, and what role – if any – will he play in the life of Bullock’s adopted son, Louis.

[From People]

I asked my friend Eyes for Lies to view this video and comment on it. She runs the blog Eyes for Lies and is a certified truth expert like the experts portrayed on Lie to Me. She wrote “I get the distinct feeling watching that interview that he wanted out of the marriage in the worst way and he sabotaged it on purpose! He admits to wanting to get caught. Did he love himself more than Sandra? The evidence seems to say so.” A lot of men do that and don’t have the balls to admit the truth even after they’re caught. Instead they beg their wives to take them back and then blame them for not giving them a chance when they’re the ones who ruined their marriages in the first place.

This is somewhat prejudiced of me, but James’ California drawl makes him sound a bit dull. On someone else I would interpret it as laid back, but he seems slow to me and I find his voice annoying. He’s all “I hurt her,” “I think I wanted to get caught,” but all I hear is a guy who is going through the motions. Maybe he’s all broken up about it, but I just get the impression that he’s proud of what he did. I could be wrong, but it’s like he’s bragging that he took down America’s Sweetheart and not like he’s apologizing. The good news is that Nightline’s Vicki Mabrey says that the divorce is 100% moving forward. She adds that James told her the public was harder on him than Sandy [has been], though. Poor, misunderstood Jesse.

Update: I worded that second to last paragraph vaguely, and a lot of you are commenting that Jesse is surprised that the public was harder on him than they were on Sandra. I’m sorry for writing it that way, I meant that “James told [interviewer Vicki Mabrey] that the public was harder on him than Sandra has been.” Meaning that Sandra didn’t give him as much grief for cheating on her as we did.