Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger Says His Divorce from Maria Shriver Was ‘Very Difficult’: ‘It Was My Failure’
“Even though we had this drama, we did Easter together, Mother’s Day together, the Christmases together, all birthdays — everything together,” Schwarzenegger said in a new interview.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting candid about his divorce from Maria Shriver.
The actor, 75, reflected on his “very difficult” split from his wife of 25 years and branded the divorce “my failure” in a new cover interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Tuesday.
Opening up about the similarities between himself and the character he plays in his new Netflix CIA series FUBAR, Schwarzenegger discussed whether his character Luke’s marriage partly not working out because he cheated was “deliberately autobiographical.”
Two months before Shiver, 67, filed for divorce in July 2011, Schwarzenegger publicly admitted he had fathered a son, Joseph Baena, 25, with the family’s longtime housekeeper Mildred Baena.
“We were laughing about it — it feels like it’s a documentary,” he told THR. “The difference is, in the show, he doesn’t consider it cheating because [seducing CIA assets] was part of his profession. His wife moved on because he never was home, and now he has this dilemma with the daughter because she has the same job and it’s going to screw up her relationship, too. But in [my real-life marriage to Shriver], it was my f – – -up. It was my failure. Also, in the show, he’s deep down still in love with his wife.”
