Jesse James’ mistress, Michelle ‘White Power’ McGee, has been receiving plenty of press since the scandal broke last week. She seems like a low life, and people are interested in her because she’s such a contrast to the lovely and talented Oscar-winning actress James was betraying. Unsurprisingly, it’s come out that some of McGee’s claims about her past are baldfaced lies, particularly one in which she says she was raised Amish. Some of McGee’s childhood acquaintances from the small town where she grew up in Ohio have spoken out and say that the heavily tattooed stripper is worlds apart from the sports-playing honor student they knew. She is thought to have been raised Catholic and her mother ran a beauty parlor. She wasn’t Amish and there weren’t any Amish communities in the immediate area.

As to what happened to transform her into the dominatrix white supremacist ink canvas she is today, we’ve heard from McGee’s ex husband that she’s bipolar and often refuses to take her medication, which would explain it. There’s more from McGee’s ex, who spoke to The Insider about his ex wife’s obsession with Jesse James. It was McGee who pursued James, and he seems to have fallen for it. McGee’s ex, Shane Modica, also revealed that McGee decided to go public with the affair after seeing how happy James and Bullock looked at the Oscars. She thought that James was going to break up with Bullock for her and believed that it was just a matter of time.

Here are some of Modica’s quotes on The Insider. You canwatch the video of his interview on their website.

“The Insider”‘s Chris Jacobs sat down with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee’s ex-husband, Shane Modica, today in Los Angeles for a new interview to air tonight, March 22 and tomorrow, March 23.
Shane tells “The Insider” that he believes Michelle was involved with Jesse James since May 2009 and that she often referred to James’ marriage to Sandra Bullock as a “sham.”

“According to [Michelle], [Sandra and Jesse] had this big thing going on where they were going to announce their divorce on a certain timeline and she was going to be the next woman,” he said.

He goes on to say, “We had problems during our marriage because of [her obsession with Jesse James].”

“Our picture is sitting there taped on her mirror, and I looked it and kind of double-taked and noticed there was something over my face and I looked closer, and it’s a picture of Jesse James, his head cut out [and] pasted over my face,” Shane said. “I was like, ‘Really, are you serious?’ And she laughed it off thinking it was funny and said, ‘It’s not a big deal, [I] was just doing it as a joke — he’s fat, he’s ugly, he doesn’t have any real tattoos, he’s old, and all that stuff.”

On the media attention surrounding the alleged affair, Shane tells “The Insider” he does not believe that Michelle is remorseful: ” I know how she works, and it was either end up with Jesse and live that lifestyle and still have the money and the fame, or she was going to make money off this one way or another.”

[From The Insider]

McGee’s ex sounds surprisingly normal and intelligent. (You can see their wedding photos here.) She’s surely a whack job and now that I hear how she plotted to snare James it makes me wonder if there was more at play. Many of you have said that this affair could have been a set up by James’ ex wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, to make him look bad and gain back custody of their five year-old daughter, Sunny. Lindemulder has filed for custody in the wake of the scandal, but that doesn’t mean that she had anything to do with it. Radar has quotes from her cousin, who says that James played dirty in the custody battle by accusing Janine of exposing her daughter to pornography. He also said “What goes around comes around.”

There’s much more news about McGee, and Radar has an interview with a friend of hers who backs the ex husband’s story that she believed that James and Bullock were separated. According to the friend, James told McGee that he would announce his separation from Bullock after her filming schedule was completed. Oh, and Radar also has a photo of the swastika tattoo McGee has above her privates. Lovely.