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Sandra Bullock at a screening of "The Lost City" in New York on March 14.Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
  • She was worried that her divorce from Jesse James would affect her son.

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  • The actress told CBS that she couldn't fully process her grief from the split to protect Louis.

The first year of raising her son, Louis, was difficult, especially after she split from Jesse James because of his infidelity, according to the actress.

After multiple women came forward to say that James had relationships with them while he was with Bullock, they filed for divorce.

The public split overshadowed the successes of the woman, who had just won her first Academy Award for The Blind Side and had adopted a child.

In an interview with CBS ahead of the release of her latest movie, she said she was worried about how the infidelity scandal and her split from James would affect her son.

So much had happened, and how do you process grief and not hurt your child? It is a newborn. They take everything you are feeling. I had an obligation to not taint the first year of his life with my grief.

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Jesse James and Sandra Bullock in March 2010.Billy Farrell / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

The photographer Bryan Randall has been with the actress since she split from James. In 2015, she adopted a second child, Laila.

Being a mother of two Black children was one of the things that Bullock talked about during the wide-ranging interview.

She said that she has a level of defense that millions of mothers have that are not white.

Last year on Red Table Talk, she said that she had been educating Louis about racial discrimination since he was 6 years old, and that she was very protective of her children.

She said she let him process it. He knows how cruel it is. He knows how unfair it is, and now Laila is aware of it.

The Lost City is out in theaters this week.

The original article can be found on Insider.

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