Arnold Schwarzenegger Details Painful Moment He Revealed Housekeeper Affair To Then-Wife Maria Shriver
06.06.2023 - 17:58
/ perezhilton.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger had to go through a really low point in his life over a decade ago when he came clean to Maria Shriver about the affair he had which produced a child.
As Perezcious readers will recall, back in late 1997, the famed bodybuilder’s housekeeper Mildred Baena gave birth to a son. For years, it was not revealed to Shriver — or anyone else — as to Joseph Baena‘s true paternity. But in 2011, during a marriage counseling session with a therapist, the now-75-year-old actor finally came clean to his longtime wife.
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In the forthcoming documentary Arnold, which is set to stream via Netflix beginning on Wednesday, the Terminator star recalls speaking with Shriver about the boy during a marriage counseling meeting back in 2011. Joseph was in his teens at the time, having been born more than a decade before. But it was the first time Arnold got up the strength and courage to come clean about what had really been going on.
Recalling the event in the streaming doc, Arnold remembers how their marriage counselor offered a “very specific” question near the end of one of their sessions. Referencing the family’s housekeeper, Arnold remembers what the counselor asked:
Thinking back to what that moment was like at the time, the former Governor of California said in the special:
During the marriage counseling session, the Kindergarten Cop star simply admitted to it by saying:
Then, he remembered back to how it felt that day in 2011 to see the now-67-year-old journalist “obviously crushed” by that revelation.
Oof…
As for why he didn’t come clean in the first place, Arnold recalled how he really didn’t want to believe he could be the