The usually stoic Sandra Bullock is finally opening up about the pain caused by her marriage split from cheating husband Jesse James.

The Oscar winning 47-year-old admitted to the Associated Press' Jake Coyle that she thought she'd never return to acting following the humiliating debacle, and that she believed she was “permanently broken.”

"I was perfectly content to be permanently broken...time-wise," Bullock said of returning to work after the 2010 scandal, which started with revelations that James had cheated with tattoo model Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee and subsequently spawned a slew of other women to come forward alleging affairs with the motorbike bad boy.