It was only a year ago that Jesse James appeared as the man most hated America after a case not only he claimed his marriage with Sandra Bullock, but also the baby the couple had spent years of waiting to adopt.
"I think that you know, a marriage ending, all this crazy stuff... which was as a lesson to work on myself and fix what's wrong with me" James said in an exclusive interview with network ABC News. "If I do transfer and keep going, like my parents did.".
Now after the closure of its California motorcycle store, 42 years old began a new life at his home on 15 hectares in the countryside near Austin, Texas.
"This is what I needed," said James. "Where I can finally breathe."
While Bullock also has a home in Austin, James said the two of them have not any contact and it is not to see Louie, the son that Bullock was eventually adopted as a single parent.
"I want to try to guess then what she thinks or something like that", he said. "I mean, I don't know why I moved…."I moved to the beginning so that children could keep a relationship and I could type to keep a relationship with Louie, and then what happened in addition. More importantly, I moved to, for me. "To get out of California."
Watch the interview with Jesse James tomorrow on "good morning America" and then see more on "nightline" at 11: 35 p.m. ET/PT
James said her daughter Sunny saw Bullock only a few times, but that did there was "no contact at all for several months."
He said "You know, painful stuff, as with Louie,". "I could only cry much on him until I have to, it did suck as and keep a stiff upper lip and realize, Hey, I have three children I have."
James stated that his new home and fresh start allowed him to develop a new relationship with his three children, Chandler, Jesse Jr. and Sunny.
"I believe that I was just dad again," he said. "And as, eliminated all the things that distract me to be a dad."
"I think that we are all connecting better," says James. "I think for the first time in their lives, they can depend on me being there and I think that life here is better, you know, for the family.
Formerly known as the star of Discovery Channel "monster Garage", James became infamous as the husband cheated on "The American Sweetheart."
Stalked constantly by the paparazzi at its Long Beach, California, houses last year, James entered a stay of 30 days in the Centre of treatment of Sierra Tucson, Arizona where he said that he was dealing with childhood and anger management problems. It is these issues he discusses in his memoirs, "American outlaw", out in the stores today.
He sat down to an exclusive interview with "nightline" shortly after his release from rehabilitation in May 2010, to talk about why he threw away what appeared to be the perfect life.
"I don't know", he told ABC News at the time. "I knew it was horrible." He made me feel horrible. [I] think that I wanted to be caught, I want to say I was trying to self sabotage my life. ?
