14 DAY TRIAL // In what is her first televised interview since the cheating scandal that led to her divorce from Jesse James, Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock sat down with Matt Lauer on The Today Show to talk New Orleans, her son and the separation.
Sandra’s newly adopted baby boy is from New Orleans, a city she says will always be close to her heart, which is why she’s just opened an on-campus health clinic at the Warren Easton Charter High School.
Seeing Hurricane Katrina tear the city to pieces moved Sandra to tears and she decided to do something to help the people here, using her position and fortune for a good cause.
However, she says, unlike on past occasions when she donated money and part of it somehow got “lost,” this time she did her homework well and made sure every penny went to the cause.
Aside from her humanitarian efforts, Sandra also talked to Lauer about her little “Cajun cookie,” the baby boy whom she adopted from New Orleans by following all the legal steps in the book.
“I did not circumvent. I wanted to do everything exactly the same way everyone else did. And – it was – he was always mine, you know. It wasn’t like I felt like someone was going to take him away,” Sandra says.
“But it was nice to have someone say, I think you’re a fit parent… I think, everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out,” the star adds.
When she applied to adopt, she and then-husband Jesse James didn’t even care if they got a boy or a girl, black or white. In fact, she says, it didn’t matter if the child was perfectly healthy: she just knew everything would be fine.
Speaking of the very troubled year she’s had, Sandra says she managed to get through it and move past it thanks to her loyal friends and family members who wouldn’t, in a million years, sell her out to the tabloids.
“I read something like, how did someone keep a secret, and it’s – you know – human beings exist that have integrity that know how to keep their mouth shut. That know the bigger picture, that don’t sell out their friends,” Bullock explains.
“Those people are all over the place. But again, we don’t like to talk about it, because it doesn’t sell a magazine. But I was blessed with the same friends I’ve had since before things got really special for me and blessed in life,” adds the actress.