American
television personality and CEO of West Coast Choppers Jesse James, 41, of
Los Angeles, died Friday of a drug overdose.
Ex-wife
Sandra Bullock found James unconscious in his home in L.A. The police say he consumed a heavy
amount of the painkiller Valium minutes after calling Bullock to discuss their
marital problems.
“She wouldn’t talk
about the incident for days, but she’s come to terms with it now,” a close
friend of Bullock told reporters.
“She has been such a strong support system for his daughter
(Sunny). After all the humiliation
he put her through she is still an angel to him.”
In an attempt to
turn his life around after the affair with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee went
public, James attended a rehab facility in Arizona specializing in drug,
alcohol, and sex addictions. He
had been home for one week.
“I talked to him a
few times during that week and I really thought he had changed,” said a friend
of James’. “He told me he wanted to
make things right with Sandra. He
also told me he knew he had lost the best thing that ever happened to him.”
James was
introduced to television in 2000 when the Discovery Channel issued the
documentary Motorcycle Mania. He even had his own stunt show called Jesse James is a Dead Man, which
premiered on Spike TV in 2009. His
celebrity status, however, is accredited to Monster
Garage, a show that required James and his group of mechanics to fix
vehicles within a given time period.
Monster Garage allowed James to meet
Bullock when she requested him to be her ten-year-old godson’s Christmas
present. The pair married in
2005.
In 2010, however,
rumors involving James’ infidelity surfaced. Apparently he had been having an affair with McGee while
Bullock was filming The Blind Side. Bullock filed for divorce on
April 28, 2010. She took care of
Sunny while James entered rehab.
Bullock has taken
full custody of Sunny and they now live in Austin, Texas.
The date for
James’ service has not been publicized but it will take place in L.A.
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