In his ‘Nightline’ interview, Jesse James made the shocking claim that his father abused him physically when he was a child. He said he was “always scared” and recounted one incident where his dad, Larry James, allegedly broke his arm. “I tripped over this little low fence wire and snapped my wrist and I remember my dad laughed at me when I hit the ground,” he said, adding, “I was a terrorized kid … it’s tough for me to think about now because … Sunny is the age that I was when my dad broke my arm.”

But Larry James remembers the incident differently, telling RadarOnline.com that his son broke his arm when he dove recklessly over a fence to retrieve a ball.

“Just to show off … he dove over the fence, landed on the ground and broke his arm,” he said. “He neglected to say that I was right there, picked him up, lifted him over the fence and I never let go of him until his hand was in a cast.”

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Jesse James is claiming the childhood abuse he suffered at the hands of his father left him insecure and not feeling like he was good enough. So he cheated on Sandra Bullock as a result.

“I grew up with a huge amount of shame and fear and abandonment on my shoulders from a very young age and I think, you know, the way my mind rationalized [cheating], ‘Well, you know, I might as well do whatever I can to like run her off cause she is going to find out what I am anyway and leave me anyway,’” the biker, 41, said in a Nightline interview that aired Tuesday. “The struggle within myself for the things that I did …to damage marriage and my life and everything else, it’s all me. I’m doing it because, you know, I’ve basically never felt good enough for anyone.”

Abuse victims “self-sabotage their life … because of their abuse; they’ve never felt good enough,” he said. “Why would I totally destroy my wife’s life and humiliate her when I knew it was bad, you know? I may seem like a monster in people’s eyes, but I’m not that kind of person where I will willfully, you know, ‘I’m gonna get her, I’ll show her,’ that’s not what it’s about. It’s about trying to push someone away that I thought was going to leave anyway.”

Childhood abuse can cause people to act out in certain situations. We wish you the best Jesse and hope you can heal from your past. But learn from this lesson and don’t keep hurting those you love and who love you.

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My mom always said, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. But who am I to judge. Perhaps Jesse James is not a racist. I guess only he knows for sure.

Here’s what he had to say about the photo of him dressed as a Nazi.

“I could tell by the look on my face [in the photo] it was a joke that was funny then, probably for a minute. But then looking at it in the context of now and in my life, it’s not funny,” he says. “There’s not a racist bone in my body.”

He adds: “Dealing with losing my marriage and my son and embarrassing everyone and decimating my life … to be called a racist on top of that is, it makes me really sad.”

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