Jesse James’ book, American Outlaw, comes out TODAY. So on the eve of the release of his memoir, Jesse gave an exclusive interview to People Magazine. Did he talk about how Sandra Bullock is a lesbian because she preferred sleeping with dogs? Did he try to explain his years-long Nazi fetishism? Nope. Jesse decided to show the world how he’s an itty-bitty butt-hurt baby and how he’s done bad things because he didn‘t believe that he deserved anything good! *sob*
It’s been just over a year since an affair cost him his marriage to Sandra Bullock and fallout from the scandal upended his world. “Everything got ripped to shreds,” Jesse James tells PEOPLE in a candid interview, speaking from his home outside of Austin, Texas. “I was at my breaking point.”
A 30-day stint at Sierra Tucson treatment center in Arizona not only helped James, 42, cope at the height of the crisis but, as he writes in a new memoir, American Outlaw, it also shed light on his abusive childhood and turbulent life marked by anger and shame.
“I always felt out of place my whole life,” says James, who still felt unworthy despite rising to fame and success as CEO of West Coast Choppers custom motorcycle outfit and host of Discovery Channel’s Monster Garage. “I never felt successful, never felt I deserved anything.”
Although James takes “full accountability” for his betrayal of Bullock, he isn’t dwelling on past mistakes. “I’m moving forward, thinking clearly and becoming a better person. … I have started life over.”
James, who recently shut down WCC and relocated his family and work to rural Texas, says, “I’ve made my world pretty small. Now I can focus on what’s important: making sure [my] kids get good grades and are happy and healthy.”
One topic too painful to include in the memoir? Louis, the adopted son James and Bullock had been raising together in secret before the scandal broke. “Talking about Louis almost felt too intimate,” says James. “He is so sweet and I miss him.”
[From People]
“He is so sweet and I miss him”… do you believe that? I figured that Sandra let Jesse be in Louis’s life for a short while after she left Jesse, but I get the feeling that arrangement ended soon after Kat Von D came into Jesse’s life. As for Jesse’s claim that he takes “full accountability” for his destructive actions AND that he’s “moving forward, thinking clearly and becoming a better person. … I have started life over”… does he really think it’s that simple? That you just say “I take responsibility. Okay, fresh start everybody! I’m a new dude!!”?? Dumbass.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
Typical male.
“Uh yea, I kinda of f*cked up there… but you know, I am a good person.”
“It was just sex! She didn’t mean anything to me…”
It is never their fault.
They are just misunderstood.
And had they been hugged when they were little, none of this would have ever happen!
And if Jesse was so ashamed, he must have gotten over it really quick.
Too bad Sandra will forever fade heat over believing in him.
Ha….this book will be on the worst seller list.
I hate when people who did something wrong claim to be the victim. It seems like he’s more upset at being painted the bad guy than his breakup. Which is obvious since he started dating Kat a few months after the scandal came out.
I sort of believe him – he looks like he can barely stand Kat von D (she’s always draped all over him while his expression says HELP!)and Sandra was always waaaay out of his league he probably really did feel he didn’t deserve her. I do think he wishes he was back with Sandra and Louis. I don’t have any sympathy for him though, he should have thought about all this before he cheated with a hundred tattooed strippers.
…but at one level it is that simple. what else is a person supposed to do? grovel forever? i relate to many aspects of his story and i’m glad he told it.
Even fools are humans. That much is true. So dont forget that. BUT- a fool knowing that he is human too, doesnt make him less of a fool. Remember that as well.
A good human, rather, will recognize that he is a fool (rather than vice versa).
LOL too funny!! American Outlaw?? Gimmie a break! I hate it when big ass babies try to explain away their actions! The American people didn’t put him on trial – tabloids did, the skank Mcboob did – yet he holds this resentment on the American people for seeing a spade! What a moron. Everytime I see his ugly, smug mug appear on my monitor, I wanna slap the shit out of it! GO AWAY JESSE!
The classy (yeah I know who we are talking about here) thing to do would be disappear with KVD and live their crazy life. I think him and her are a better match and she probably understands him and has more reasonable expectations of what a self-destructive douche he is. He isn’t going to win public support from anybody and the only thing he is succeeding at is making it worse for Sandra.
does he own any other shirt?
Waahhhhh! Just man up Jesse and admit you’re a selfish little jerk who let his dick lead him around by the nose. Success went to your head, you thought you were above the law. You’re not. And your stupid book is going to end up in the bargain bin. I wouldn’t line my cat litter pan with your stupid book.
aw, he doesn’t feel like he ever deserved anything? looking at the pictures with him and kat, he’s right. what a come-down from sandra. yikes.
I can’t wait to buy his book in the dollar bin in a couple of weeks.
Oh no! Did poor Jesse fall down and scratch his vagina again? Poor little baby! Not.
Seeing all the women he’s dated before Sandra and after, I’m really wondering how the hell they ended up together. Sandra’s so classy and he’s so…ick.
And I know I’ve said this before, but goddamn, Kat’s tattoos are just plain trashy. And this comes from a girl who loves tattoos and has seven big ones of her own.
There’s such a thing as too many tattoos and especially tacky ones.
The only thing to make Kat’s tattoos even trashier and tackier is to get Jesse’s name tattooed on her. Then the circle will finally be complete.
Let Jesse James know that you don’t care what he has to say – DO NOT give this man any of your money and buy his book!
He needs to stop dressing like a 20-something and she needs to join the circus. And I really hope these two don’t breed.
He needs a kick to the balls and a punch to the throat, douche bag!
he is so hood!
I’m wondering if he will keep his interviews as circumspect when it becomes clear his book isn’t selling like he wants.
Whaddya want to be the gloves come off within thirty days or so?
Either that or he’s under some kind of gag agreement regarding Sandra and Louis.
I wouldn’t read his book if someone gave it to me…he is what he is, hes not going to change..Kat better get ready, hes gonna cheat on her too…and I don’t believe he misses Louis, he didn’t even get to know him, Sandra adopted him on her own after she split with Jesse!
Wow in any relationship break up your’ really suppose to take time for yourself to heal from your wounds even those self inflicted.
What does Jesse do jump right back into the dating world even getting engaged, how can you move on when you bring your old crappy outlook on relationships with you.
She (KAT) cheated her previous boyfriends he (Jesse) cheated on Sandra, with numerous skanky ho really how long will this couple last with two dysfunctional people with no boundaries on what is right and wrong
“I never felt I deserved anything.”
douche to human translation:
“I’m a man-whore narcissist, but pretending to be hurt and vulnerable makes it easier to manipulate people. Especially female people.”
“I take full accountability”
douche to human translation:
“For instance, I wrote a book and am attempting to profit off of being a jerkface. That’s what accountability means, right?”
Good point kaligula :^)
JJ is not the brightest bulb if he thinks this book will wash away all the crap and negative public image he has created for himself. I wonder how long before he makes KvD get a boob job? He likes him some tattooed-big-fake-boobs-skanks.
I think the book is more about money. He’s closed down WCC, lost his Discovery show and I can’t see him having much income coming in.
Loser.
I dig Kat’s dress in those pics.
once a dick always a dick. and i smell a reality show coming…
Ugh. He totally didn’t know what he had when he had Sandra. Now he’s riding his train down to the bottom of the cliff. Kat looks totally into him, but he looks like he’s barely there with her.
Yep. Still a dick.
Cirque28 – Love it!
This sideshow freak and his dancing poodle do not deserve your money. I wouldn’t use the pages from his book as toilet paper.
He makes me sick, and he will never change.
what a f*cking loser! GAWD! Cry me a river….does he seriously think people are going to fall for his BS? He has not changed one bit. I am not saying that he cannot change, but he hasn’t and more than likely won’t. At this age if he still sees himself as the “victim” then it will ALWAYS be someone else’s fault—TOTAL DOUCHE BAG!
JJ is a creep, I won’t read a bumper sticker penned by him.
Re KVD, I returned a purse recently because the pattern was too tough to match to outfits…imagine trying to match anything to that ridiculous skin of hers.
For her info, the pattern of that dress is not served well her prolific tats. I guess with that skin you have to go with plain clothing…
What Maddie and Cirque28 said!!!!
They both are ugly and boring, inside and out. Perfect couple.
“…never felt I deserved anything.”
You don’t. Nothing good.
A commentator on Jezebel had this to say about Jesse James and his “taking responsibility” bullshit:
“Jesse James isn’t trying that hard. I posted this in tips a couple weeks ago, but I sat next to him at a bar in Austin recently, and he was a total douche. He and his posse skipped out on the check, even, and the bar was particularly irritated because apparently it wasn’t the first time that he’d done that.”
Still a douche.
Talking about how his stupid behavior affected HIM and never really apologizing to the people he hurt = sociopath. Don’t think you quite made it through those 12 steps, Jesse.