"Bombshell" McGee's Timing Questioned

(CBS)  It appears Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock is going from "The Blind Side" to "The Break Up."

People magazine says she's moving out on her husband, Jesse James, who's apologizing for causing the whole marital mess.

Michelle "Bombshell" McGee told In Touch Weekly magazine she had a hot affair with James.

"She said the relationship went on for 11 months with them communicating but for five weeks, it was intimate," In Touch Senior Editor Kim Serafin told CBS News.

But some are wondering about why McGee waited until just after Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar, for "The Blind Side," to make the claim.

McGee says she met James after e-mailing him hoping to land an appearance on his TV show "Monster Garage." She showed In Touch suggestive texts sent between the two.

Photos: Michelle "Bombshell" McGee
Photos: Celebrity Splits
Photos: The Oscar Curse
Photos: Sandra Bullock

James is said to have still been e-mailing McGee five days ago, a week after Bullock won her Academy Award. McGee claims they had sex the first time they met, and the relationship continued while Bullock was off shooting "The Blind Side" in Atlanta.

Danielle Madrano was McGee's boss when the supposed affair began. "I was like, 'He's married!!' And she said, 'Oh, their marriage is just a sham, but him and I have been dating for a little while.' … Sexual tension worked up, I'll be blunt about that, very much, that she wanted to go see him, and be with him physically."

"It doesn't appear she knew about any of this Oscar night," Serafin says.

On "The Early Show" Friday, People Senior Editor Kate Coyne said no one is sure why McGee came forward with her claims when she did. Could she have been waiting for Bullock to perhaps win that Oscar?

"It's hard to say what the timing of this was motivated by," Coyne told substitute co-anchor Erica Hill, "Her story indicates that this (the sex) happened months and months and months ago. So, it's a very good question, 'Why now?' I mean, you hope this wasn't something that was sat on until Sandra was at her highest moment and it was designed therefore to bring her down when she was at her happiest. I mean, you'd like to be a little less cynical than that. But it's interesting that this coincided with what should the happiest time of her (Bullock's) life."

Hill remarked, "You'd like to be less cynical but oftentimes, as we know, there is money that changes hands and sometimes, perhaps, people do wait."

Coyne says there was "absolutely no" sign Bullock knew what was apparently going on, adding, "That's really what's kind of the most heartbreaking is that, you watch the clips now of her Oscar speech, of her Golden Globe speech, of the many speeches she gave praising her husband, talking about how he's always had her back, and it's really heartbreaking, because it's pretty clear she had no idea that there was any inkling of this."

James is now saying he's sorry to Bullock and his three children - though, CBS News Correspondent Ben Tracy points out, not quite fessing up to the fling. "The vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded. Beyond that, I will not dignify these private matters with any further public comment," he said in the statement provided to People.

"It's because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way. This has caused my wife and kids pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension and I am extremely saddened to have brought this on them. I am truly very sorry for the grief I have caused them. I hope one day they can find it in their hearts to forgive me."

James was seen Thursday still wearing his wedding ring.

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Photos: Michelle "Bombshell" McGee
Photos: Sandra Bullock vs. Porn Star
Photos: Jesse James Still Wearing His Wedding Ring
Photos: The Oscar Curse
Photos: Celebrity Splits
Photos: Sandra Bullock

[citizenusa-2009]

Newsflash: Homely grease monkey who is named after an old timey outlaw shoots and fatally wounds his marriage. Film at eleven.

[holiesthour]

take the ring off Jesse, you don't deserve to wear it.

[jacinri]

I think there is a new picture in the dictonary under the word "*****". Someone should do the honors of introducing Ms. McGee's right knee to her left knee, as I am sure they have never met.

[generey]

Call me Sandy; I will be your dedicated and devoted slave!

[alancontact]

Wow, she really blew it. Sandra could have had me instead of James and could have avoided all the baggage.

[frogger581]

i think the worst part is the fact that the affair was most likely going on while sandra was fighting for custody of his kid from his other cracked out ex. She loved him and his daughter so much and then he makes a bastage move like that. forget mcgee, her punishment is her own life and the fact that all those tatoos make her look perpetually dirty, jesse deserves a viking funeral without the courtesy of a valiant death beforehand...

[acousticb1-2009]

i wonder if she knew james x and JJ is in a big custody broha with his pornstar X

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money-01]

by bajajohn1 March 19, 2010 7:35 PM EDT
This McGee woman is a s.lut.
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Not to mention the James man.

[berlinfoto-2009]

This whole thing is all in bad taste, it stinks, why is any of it news worthy?
I guess that CBS wants to give millions of free advertising, to the tattoo artists of the world.
Why do all the young people want to have a HOG RING in their nose I guess that it is a sign to the world that they are ready to be lead around by the ring in their nose, by the new world order, like a hog to slaughter.

[baileyccc]

Wow, just like Tiger, he's real sorry after he got caught. posted by baileycc