I’m going to fulfill my responsibilities,” he tells Stahl. ‘I kind of put it away and just said to myself, `OK, I’m going to put this away.

Instead, after he began noticing the boy’s strong resemblance to him, around age 8, he just began giving Baena extra money. He tells Stahl he never even had a conversation with the housekeeper, Mildred Baena, about the son. Schwarzenegger says he kept the secret from his wife for years because he was worried ‘it would get out.’ Shriver confronted him during a January 2011 counseling session and he finally acknowledged the boy, Joseph, was his. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.īut Schwarzenegger’s biggest secret, the child he had with the family’s housekeeper, became tabloid news last year after he left office. ‘Total Recall’ will officially be published Monday. Despite that struggle, he also didn’t inform her when he decided to seek a second term, writing that she had to read about it in the newspaper.

Shriver opposed the idea, but was persuaded to soften her stance by her mother, Eunice Shriver, who told her to support her husband’s ambitions, or he might resent her for the rest of his life. ‘So I became an expert in living in denial,’ says the Hollywood action star and former governor. Universe traces his detachment to his bodybuilding days, where he says emotions make athletes lose. But, I mean it does not – it’s not the best thing for people around me because I sometimes – some information I just keep to myself,’ Schwarzenegger tells reporter Lesley Stahl on ’60 Minutes.’

In his new autobiography, ‘Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,’ and in an interview airing Sunday on ’60 Minutes,’ the former California governor acknowledges that his inability to be honest with people has hurt those closest to him.

Throughout their strained 25-year marriage, Schwarzenegger says he did not want to tell Shriver about crucial life decisions such as major heart surgery and running for California governor because he feared she would overreact and tell her well-connected family and friends. – Arnold Schwarzenegger says his lifelong penchant for secrecy and ability to put his emotions ‘on deep freeze’ led him to keep many secrets from his wife Maria Shriver, eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage when he was forced to admit he fathered a child with the family’s housekeeper years earlier.

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