London, May 26 (IANS) Jesse James claims his estranged wife Sandra Bullock was ‘proud’ of him when he went to rehab.

James, who underwent treatment for rumoured sex addiction, says he confessed ‘everything’ about his infidelities to Bullock.

‘I told her basically everything that I had affairs outside of our marriage… I think she had her suspicions, but I lied my way out of it. I lied to everyone, even myself,’ femalefirst.co.uk quoted him as saying.

Looking at a family picture, James broke down and said: ‘The photographs of them made me sad. But I realise why things had to be done in a certain way.

‘To see her (Bullock) in the role as mother is, like, one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. She is like a fish to water… as soon as she put that baby into her hands, it was automatic and amazing.’