from www.tmz.com – Jesse James’ ex-wife Janine Lindemulder begged Jesse’s sister to hook her up with painkillers in 2008 to “numb” the pain of the couple’s nasty custody battle … this according to emails obtained by TMZ.

In the emails, Janine pleads with Julie James England to ask her husband, Sgt. Mark T. England — a medic in the Army — to hook her up with Vicodin so she can “dissappear [sic] from all of this for a while.”

Julie shoots Janine down, writing, “mark would never jeapordize [sic] his position by doing this! I love you and know you are having a rough time, however this is really weird you’d ask this of us. sunny needs you to be 100%.”

As we first reported, Jesse filed legal docs on Friday … trying to derail Janine’s attempt to regain shared custody of their daughter Sunny. He paints Janine as a drugged-out mess who poses a serious risk to their daughter.

The next custody hearing is set for June 17.

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www.tmz.com/2010/06/09/jesse-james-janine-lindemulder-emails-painkillers-vicodin-drugs-sunny/