I am so bummed by Sandra Bullock’s huband’s affair
Wow. I really did not see this one coming–even though, after a banner year of celebrity cheaters, I suppose I should have suspected Jesse James as well (I mean–his name is Jesse James, and he has all those tattoos, and hosts something called “Monster Garage,” which I have never seen but doesn’t sound promising). Yet somehow I had faith in Sandra’s choice–especially since she had taken Jesse’s daughter to heart, shielding her from the press, nourishing her in the absence of her jailed porn star mother. I wanted to believe, despite their disparate lives, these two had found a loving life together.
Now another girl next door tumbles down, knocked over by her naive belief. A closeup video of Bullock’s Oscar win–she glares at her spouse, tight-lipped–seems to indicate that she knew, even that night.
I think of Halle Berry, who so embraced Eric Benet’s daughter, and how confusing it must have been to that child, when Eric betrayed her stepmom. Now there is Sunny, the stepdaughter Sandra nourished.
Would we have known any of this–would Sandra have known?–had it not been for the publicity-craving revelations of Jesse’s stripper fling? Sure, Sandra should have suspected a guy who wed a porn star wouldn’t necessarily be a straight arrow mate. But after dozens of Tiger Woods’ mistresses blabbed and blabbed, isn’t it time we took a look at the other women?
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Hello Susan,
The simple fact of the matter is that we have no idea who these people are. I have found that it is really difficult to know any human being even when have known them your whole life.
Maybe Ms. Bullock is a heartless bitch who broke up the marriage Jesse James and Janine Lindemulder when the latter was eight months pregnant. Maybe Mr. James denied being the father of sunny until DNA tests showed otherwise. Maybe Mr. James never met his daughter until she was three when it was convenient for his new wife to have publicity prop. (If you cheated with him, he will cheat on you).
It is also possible that Ms.Bullock is a loving step mother who met a man with rough edges who had already broken up with his ex-porn star wife. This same wonderful woman may have graciously took the young girl under her wing when the need arose.
The Sandra Bullock you think you know is no more a real person than Lady McBeth or Elinor Dashwood. Both of the above stories area media creations by people with axes to grind. No doubt there are real human beings out there somewhere with those names but we have no idea who they are or what they are like. What we might like to think we know has been manufactured by publicity agents and filtered through gossip columnists.
You might was be bummed that Richard the Third did not treat Anne Neville better or why she married the man who murdered her husband. While entertaining, it is ultimately futile.
Hey Susan, why is it that all these Oscar-winning women end up having damaged relationships. So many are no longer with the men they were with when they won the award: Emma Thompson, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank. What is up with that? Are guys really that insecure?
Sophfronia, I have no idea! Everybody’s calling it the Oscar Curse–a variation of the Hello wedding curse. But it probably is draining to spend months trailing in someone else’s spotlight.
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