Arnold Schwarzenegger Remembers Telling Maria Shriver He Welcomed a Child With Their Housekeeper: ‘She Was Crushed’

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A hard truth. Arnold Schwarzenegger looked back on the moment he told now-ex Maria Shriver about his affair with their former housekeeper.The Terminator star, 75, opened up about the scandal — which resulted in the birth of his son Joseph Baena — in the new Netflix docuseries Arnold. “Maria and I went to counseling once a week,” he recalled. “In one of the sessions, the counselor said, ‘I think today Maria wants to be very specific about something.

She wants to know if you are the father of Joseph.’ And … I thought my heart stopped, and then I told the truth.”Schwarzenegger confessed to fathering a child with Mildred Baena, who worked for the actor and his family for 20 years. “She was crushed because of that,” he said of Shriver, 67.Joseph was born in October 1997, less than one week after Schwarzenegger and Shriver welcomed their son Christopher.

The twosome also share daughters Katherine and Christina and son Patrick.“I had an affair in ’96,” the Kindergarten Cop star noted in the series, explaining that he “really didn’t know” for certain that Joseph was his child. “I just started feeling the older he got, the more it became clear to me and then it was really just a matter of how do you keep this quiet?

How do you keep this a secret?”The former California governor admitted that he felt “reluctant” to speak about the situation. “I think that I have caused enough pain for my family because of my f–k up,” he said. “Everyone had to suffer.