JAMES’ EX-STEPMOTHER LASHES OUT AT CHILDHOOD ABUSE CLAIMS
JESSE JAMES’ former stepmother has taken aim at SANDRA BULLOCK’s estrange d husband after he alleged his father beat him as a child in a TV intervi ew.
The TV mechanic opened up about the affairs that wrecked his marriage d uring an interview with U.S. newswoman Vicki Mabrey on Tuesday night (25M ay10), and during the candid Nightline chat he blamed his troubled childh ood for contributing to his bad behaviour as an adult.
James fought back tears as he described his turbulent relationship with his dad Larry and went on to accuse his father of beating him up and bre aking his arm when he was just seven years old.
He said, "My whole childhood, I never had a chance to be a kid. I remem ber the clenched-teeth, strained-neck look on his face. He beat my a** pr etty good a bunch of times. Football star, bike builder, Monster Garage T V star - all that stuff is a huge smokescreen, so people won’t see that I ‘m a scared, abused kid, a seven year old.
"I remember my dad laughed when I hit the ground and called me a dummy.
It wasn’t getting the s**t beat out of me… It was the in-between time, the fear of that happening again. I was a terrorised kid. It’s really to ugh for me to think about now, because…(my daughter) Sunny’s the age th at I was=E2=80=A6when my dad broke my arm." Larry James denied the allegations in an email to America’s ABC News, a nd now his ex-wife, Janina James Coan, has stepped forward in his defence , branding the claims "a bunch of crap".
Coan, who began dating James, Sr. when Jesse was six, reveals father an d son fell out when the future star was a teenager, but she is "appalled" at the suggestion that her ex was an abusive dad.
She tells TMZ.com, "Larry was the most caring father, the kindest fathe r who would do anything for anybody. He loved Jesse to death and would br ag about him all the time." Coan claims Jesse and his father became estranged when James, Sr. repor ted his son to the cops when he discovered he’d robbed a store with a fri end. Coan says Jesse ended up in juvenile hall and was very upset that hi s dad turned him in.
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