Sandra Bullock had never spoken publicly about how she experienced the infidelity scandal that ended her marriage to Jesse James in 2010.
She was 62 when she finally told the story: while her marriage to Jesse James was falling apart amid an infidelity scandal, she was filming ‘Gravity’ locked inside a space capsule for nine hours a day, completely alone. In an interview with Jennifer Aniston for Interview magazine, conducted on June 16, 2026, the actress connected both experiences with a single phrase: she felt like she was in a locked box.
But the most revealing part was not the memory of the divorce, but what she did to protect her son Louis, whom she adopted in late 2009. Bullock said that she went so far as to get him out of the house hidden inside a hockey bag to evade the paparazzi staking out the door.
James did not acknowledge the infidelity until 2017 and entered rehab. Bullock, meanwhile, rebuilt her life alongside photographer Bryan Randall, with whom she adopted her daughter Laila. Randall died in 2023 after a silent battle with ALS. 🎬