Michelle "Bombshell" McGee - who rose to fame after having an affair with Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James - is stepping out to reveal that cheating website Ashely Madison is a scam.
In a new video interview with Inside Edition, McGee tells how the website's founders hired her in 2010 to get the site off the ground and how her profile was used to lure men without her knowledge. Snippets of the Inside Edition interview of the Ashley Madison scam were released Tuesday, September 1.
Indeed, an article can still be found on the Ashley Madison blog titled "MICHELLE 'BOMBSHELL' MCGEE TO STAR IN ASHLEYMADISON.COM COMMERCIAL." In the blog, Michelle's head is cut off while her tattooed neckline is featured, according to The Inquistr,
According to McGee, she set up an account in 2010 to represent the cheaters' website. She said she filled out a profile with her real information after which she never logged back again. Because of this, the ex-model was shocked to find strangers approaching her later on, telling her she had spoken to them online.
"I feel like they used my profile to lure people," she said.
Michelle said Ashley Madison is a scam because the site used her profile because women don't really log into the website.
"I think there are actually women on there but the real women are scam artists or porn girls looking to generate more income to the website," Michelle said. "But almost of them are fake profiles that Ashley Madison posted so they can maintain control."
She added that she had also been paid to recruit friends and create profiles on the site. Some of these friends include Merilee Gerth, who confirmed to INSIDE EDITION that she did not intend on having an affair using the site.
"Once I created the profile, I had nothing to do with it," said McGee. "They were looking for women to fill out profiles so they could take over the profile and monitor it and respond to any men."
She added that women whose husbands used Ashley Madison should not be worried.
"People have zero affairs on Ashley Madison," McGee said. "I think they're scam artists, I think they're shady, they're snakes. I think they're dishonest people all around - to the people they con to join the website and to the customers on the website."
Ashley Madison has yet to respond to INSIDE EDITION'S requests for comment regarding the Ashley Madison scam interview with McGee. In fact, on Monday, the company released a statement with reports stating that 87,596 women in the last week have signed up on the site, sending more than 2.8 million messages.
In the statement, the company also claimed that it's continuing to grow despite the massive hack exposing its millions of users' personal information.
"Recent media reports predicting the imminent demise of Ashley Madison are greatly exaggerated," Avid Life Media said in a press release.
Even as CEO Noel Biderman has reportedly stepped down from his position Friday, the Toronto-based company said it has not dampened customer interest.
However, an analysis by Gizmodo, a tech media site, hacked database of Ashley Madison in the last week reveals female accounts not being used by real people. In addition, 20 million of the male accounts in the cheating site only checked their messages at least once, while only 2,492 checked theirs.
USA Today reported that in 2013, an Avid Life Media employee has sued the company after receiving "repetitive stress injuries" after she created a thousand fake female profiles in three weeks.
According to Canada's National Post, the employee, Doriana Silva, created 1,000 posts in Portuguese in order to help launch a Brazilian Ashley Madison site.
In defense, Avid Life Media countersued Silva and said the employee kept confidential documents bellowed to it. In January, the lawsuit was dismissed.
Here's a snippet of the interview with McGee. The full interview will air on INSIDE EDITION Wednesday, September 2.
