One Of James Cameron's Ex-Wives Tells Tales Of His Huge Ego

One of James Cameron's four ex-wives, actress Linda Hamilton, is opening up about their troubled marriage--which failed, she said, because Cameron's only committed relationship is to his work.

"Titanic was the mistress he left me for," Hamilton told UK's Daily Sun. "He was the kind of man who really would rather be at work with the mistress than at home with the wife. That was hard to come to terms with."

Hamilton, now 53, started dating Cameron in the early 1990s when he directed her in the first two 'Terminator' films. They had a daughter in 1993. While filming 'Titanic' in 1997, Cameron took up with Suzy Amis, who had a small part in the movie. He came back to Hamilton, married her and left her eight months later for Amis.

Cameron and Amis are still married, but Hamilton is willing to bet he will leave her.

"The woman he can't get is always his dream girl," she said in an apparent interview with UK's Daily Mail. "Work and women go hand in hand for Jimbo, and I should know."

Here are a few of the reasons it is difficult to be married to Cameron, according to Hamilton:

- When filming 'Terminator' Hamilton asked Cameron to see her playback and he refused. She got mad and he apologized and plied her with a bottle of champagne. "Then he told the crew that he'd made me work up that rage to get a better performance from me. Bull! So the apology didn't mean a thing. I thought: 'You creep!'"

- Cameron shouts 'Take a number, take a number,' when people want to talk to him.

- He would put his own family up in a hotel when they came to visit.

- When they were fighting Cameron would repeatedly move out and back in have his assistant move his home gym with him. "It got to the stage where I said: 'Let me at least keep your gym because this is really getting expensive.'"

- "His parenting techniques: Jim would go away for three years to do a movie then come back and treat her like a one-year-old and think she was going to be stolen in the playground."

- His mantra: "He used to say to me: 'Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I'm going for that.'"

You can read the whole Daily Mail interview here.

Comments

[Victorialila]

05:29 PM on 03/09/2010

Why hasn't anyone mentioned that his current wife looks clinically ill and/or anorexic? She's not just regular Hollywood thin but no one has said a word.

[dollyfedup]

02:13 AM on 03/08/2010

That's why women or men have to be careful getting into relationships with people who are burried into their work because they will not give you any attention. This is a turn off to me when I meet a guy and he's constantly telling me how busy is with work (I also notice that many of these men have huge egos too...especially the ones who have so called businesses where they are nothing but slaves cleaning up restaurants or business offices after they close) and can't seem to make time for me. I don't care about the money, glamour or glitz, I would prefer a relationship and someone I can spend time with. Linda should've know this before she married him.

[darkelflass]

06:27 PM on 02/08/2010

Ego? This is coming from Linda Hamilton? Of all people? ROTFLMAO There is so much to talk about where she's concerned that I don't know where to begin. Suffice it to say, she has never been my favorite person (or actor) and she's reminding me AGAIN why she's not.

[zapper502]

08:19 AM on 02/08/2010

linda hamilton was the best thing about terminator 2 and the best thing period about any of the terminator movies was her performance in 2

[NotMcCain]

10:00 PM on 02/07/2010

Okay. So Cameron was/is a selfish, self-centered arrogant a-hole and She. Knew. It.

From all these things, it certainly wasn't any secret!

So, what does it say about Hamilton that she just didn't say, "Bye."?

[drzoon]

01:08 PM on 02/08/2010

she did! that's why they call it DIVORCE!

[jemiltd]

11:24 PM on 02/24/2010

That's why people marry people who have long histories of domestic abuse. They don't believe it can happen to them, that they'll be the exception. Denial, when being treated well.

[JTJMOMEDTEK]

09:12 PM on 02/07/2010

I don't really get the "stolen from the playground" comment. Does she think only 1 year olds get stolen out of parks? Is it me or does anyone else wanna smack her?

[drzoon]

01:09 PM on 02/08/2010

that seemed like a lazy comment to me too.... my kids are five and ten yrs old and i don't use that as excuse to not worry or pay attention to them on a playground or at the park.

[festry548]

08:36 PM on 02/07/2010

This is a surprise?

[Seán O'Nilbud]

06:11 PM on 02/07/2010

If Avatar had not been in 3D no one would have gone to see a Pocahontas remake. I'd really much prefer to sit through Watchman in 3D if it's blue dudes and explosions you want.

[Agentlady007]

08:24 PM on 02/07/2010

I hope they make the sequel to Tron 3D.


I wonder how James' wife compares herself to a 47 ton ocean liner ship? She's pretty brave.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_heavy_was_the_RMS_Titanic

[tuberider]

05:07 PM on 02/07/2010

Well, she shoulda treated him like that there Oscar. Just sayin'...Macho Mike, Montana

[paul9999]

04:46 PM on 02/07/2010

he sounds bitter

[Agentlady007]

08:29 PM on 02/07/2010

i admire his relentless comments.

[hippie4ever]

04:18 PM on 02/07/2010

A certain amount of ego is necessary for the job and god help the person directing a film without it. The actors and production crew would walk over the director given half a chance. I think the woman's just sniping because she rues her divorce settlement after the huge success of "Avatar." Ms. Hamilton's looking for a bump.

[charon]

04:03 PM on 02/07/2010

Films can be great art, but Cameron's are just gimmicky schlop that sells on spectacle. As Aristotle wrote, spectacle is a bad form of art, and Cameron proves him right. As for Hamilton, I take any ex's criticism with a grain of salt. He sounds like a lousy husband and father, but he has plenty of company in the world if he is. I hope she has moved on anyway.

[halucijason]

05:27 PM on 02/07/2010

Right, but spectacular and visually stunning movies get people into movie theaters and artsy fartsy movies do not, but don't get me wrong they are good on a slow sunday.

[wagadog]

09:32 PM on 02/07/2010

Yeah, so what if he's a lousy husband and father, he has his Great Work to complete.

Of course, if James Cameron were a woman, and found out to be lousy wife and mother, we'd all be screaming what a heartless mercenary self-serving b*tch she was not to spend sufficient time with the brats, and if James Cameron were a childless woman we'd all be saying how "unfulfilled" and "bitter" she must be.

[anninamerica1982]

03:16 PM on 02/07/2010

Everyone has flaws. Just enjoy his movies and stop judging

[MANK]

01:16 PM on 02/07/2010

If women know his reputation and think they will be the ONE, then they can't complain when, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks!"

[HannaSchmitz]

01:13 PM on 02/07/2010

Everyone knows Cameron is a arrogant man with an ego the size of China. Hamilton is bipolar so we can't take what she says to literally. She did marry him! Suzi Amis is just a different woman. She had 3 kids with Cameron so maybe this marriage will work out and he may of grown up a bit since his last wife or his first wife (4 wives ago). Marrying a type A is not easy. I know but in the end, they can be great husbands and father's and they make a ton of money. That's my 2 cents.

[alexis101]

01:46 PM on 02/07/2010

Don't you really just want to say, "Type "A's" make a lot of money, and isn't that the only thing to consider?" You know you do.