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Sandra Bullock's ex-husband, Jesse James, has been slammed by his wife Bonnie Rotten, who has accused him in a series of social-media posts of showing interest in other women.
Former adult film actress Rotten, real name Alaina Hicks, wrote in a flurry of since-deleted Instagram Story posts that, after she and erstwhile Monster Garage host James "got into it" and she left their home, she learned of his alleged behavior.
"I'm 10 weeks pregnant," the 29-year-old wrote in one post, a screenshot of which was obtained by celebrity news site The Blast. "I had to leave the house because we got into it the other night. He blocked me on everything.
"I see his page. He's following his ex and a bunch of girls. I'm his pregnant wife and he chooses to act like this. THAT'S NOT A MAN."
"You want to ruin my life?" Rotten wrote in a follow-up post. "Isolate me from everything and everyone? Leave me with nothing. We will see."
"Yeah Jesse is busy trying to f*** other woman while I'm pregnant," she continued, adding: "I'm so hurt by everything he has done to me. He doesn't give a f*** about anyone but himself, he's a truly disgusting human being."
Explaining why she had put the post on social media, Rotten said that "the only way [James] will feel anything is if everyone knows what he truly is."
Appearing to allude to allegations of infidelity in James' previous relationships, Rotten went on: "Everyone can laugh at me, make fun of me, whatever you want to say. Nothing will make me feel worse than how I truly feel right now. I should've known better, you're all right."
Rotten and James, 53, tied the knot in a backyard ceremony in Texas in June, just under three months after announcing their engagement. It was the second marriage for Rotten and the fifth for West Coast Choppers founder James.
After deleting the posts from her Instagram account, Rotten went on to write that she doesn't want "anything to do with" James.
"I appreciate all the messages," she wrote to her Instagram followers. "I removed the post because I don't want to see it or anything to do with him anymore. It's dragged me down a darker hole and I just need to try to be as positive as I can right now."
Her series of posts ended with a photo of an American Airlines plane, to which she added the caption: "Bye Bye."
When contacted for comment on the allegations, James told Newsweek via Instagram direct message: "Nice to get the confirmation that Newsweek is just tabloid trash. LMB."
James subsequently shared the email exchange on his Instagram Stories.
James was married to Hollywood screen star Bullock, 58, between 2005 and 2010.
Days after Bullock and her then-husband attended the 2010 Academy Awards—where she scooped the best actress trophy for her role in The Blind Side—a woman came forward with allegations that she had an affair with James while his wife was away from home, shooting the movie that she was awarded for.
Other women then came forward with allegations that they had also had affairs with James during his relationship with Bullock.
Following the subsequent breakdown of his marriage, James spent a month at a rehab facility in Arizona, before uprooting from California to Austin, Texas, to be near Bullock's home in a futile attempt to win her back.
"For a while I tried to do everything I could," James told The Daily Beast in a 2011 interview, "but I had to come to the realization that thing was broken beyond repair. [...] I'm remorseful that I hurt her so bad, but I just needed to accept things the way they were and move on. I just had to let go, forgive myself, and move on with my life."
"I know she forgives me and I've apologized to her and tried to do everything possible to convey to her how sorry I am that things happened the way they did, and that I never wanted to hurt her," James added.
As for why he was unfaithful to Bullock, James—whose months-long engagement to tattoo artist Kat Von D, 40, ended in 2011 over allegations he cheated—said: "I think it was several factors: ego, loneliness, distrust, which probably led to resentment.
"When you have a certain amount of shame and guilt in your life that spurs from other stuff, you can manufacture resentment in any situation; because I'm not getting the attention I need or the love that I need, when all I had to do was ask for it and she would give it to me. But just because I didn't get it when I didn't ask for it, I was like, 'Oh, she doesn't love me.'"
Following her split from James, Bullock embarked on a fresh chapter in her life when she moved on and adopted two children, the first of whom she became a mother to in 2010. She has been in a relationship with photographer Bryan Randall since 2015.
"My life took a trajectory that wasn't very pleasant," Bullock told U.K. news outlet The Independent in 2018 when discussing the bumps in her life before motherhood. "But I feel like it had to happen in order for me to fully understand what family was about."
"My life went the way it went because it was supposed to be that way," she added. "Sometimes you have to open up your mind and wait. I can say that, because I see the bigger picture, but when you're in it, you're like: 'When is my family coming?'
"I was there. I know what that feels like. And at some point you almost let go of the idea and when you do, all of a sudden the universe goes: 'Oh you finally let go? Here you go. This is it.' And you go: 'Oh my God, that's more beautiful than anything I ever imagined.'"
Update 12/1/22, 9:35 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to include a response from James.
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