Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to ‘60 Minutes’ about the affair with his housekeeper that produced a love child and ended his marriage to Maria Shriver in an interview airing Sunday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is finally opening up on the scandal that terminated his marriage.The 65-year-old bodybuilder-turned actor-turned governor of California has remained mum on his affair with a family housekeeper that resulted in a love child whose existence was kept secret until last year. The revelation ended up costing Schwarzenegger his 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver and severely damaged his image.
“I think it was the stupidest thing I’ve done in the whole relationship,” Scharzenegger tells “60 Minutes” in an interview airing Sunday. “It was terrible. I inflicted tremendous pain on Maria and unbelievable pain on the kids.”
The interview comes just one day before the release of Schwarzenegger’s explosive tell-all memoir, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.”
“The Expendables 2” star writes that Shriver confronted him during a marriage counseling session a day after he finished his term as California governor in January 2011.
“The minute we sat down, the therapist turned to me and said, ‘Maria wanted to come here today and to ask about a child — whether you fathered a child with your housekeeper Mildred [Baena],’” Schwarzenegger writes in the book about the moment he was forced to reveal that he had a son — Joseph, who turns 15 next week.
Schwarzenegger told “60 Minutes” that Shriver has not read the book, which chronicles his rise from a poor childhood in Austria to the governor’s mansion.
“She knows that it’s about my whole life and that I would not write a book and kind of leave out that part and make people feel like, ‘Well, wait a minute. Are we just getting a book about his success stories and not talk about his failures,” he says.
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