London: Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock was so devastated by her cheating husband and the subsequent marriage breakdown that she thought she would never be able to face the camera again.
The 47-year-old actress, who maintained a dignified silence over the whole scandal surrounding her ex-husband Jesse James last year, says she thought she was “permanently broken” after discovering James had been cheating on her, the Daily Mail reported.
“I was perfectly content to be permanently broken. I honestly didn’t think I was in a place where I wanted to work or wanted to step out of where I was. I wasn’t prepared,” Bullock said about her marriage collapse.
The actress found out about James affair with tattoo model Michelle McGee just days after she picked up the Best Actress Oscar in 2010 for The Blind Side where she paid a glowing tribute to her husband. She was unaware all this while that he had been cheating on her with McGee while she was away shooting the film.
Bullock said she was persuaded to return to acting by director Stephen Daldry who wanted her to appear opposite Tom Hanks in the 9/11 drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Hanks plays a victim of the September 11th terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York with Bullock his grief stricken wife.
“So we had a great time. It’s no longer “selfish actress” in the moment. I wanted to have an amazing time with him and, fortunately, Daldry presented it. In every possible way, it was the best!” (PTI)