Maria Shriver Opens Up About Divorce From Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'It Was Brutal'

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Maria Shriver is opening up about her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 69-year-old journalist got vulnerable in her new memoir, I Am Maria, detailing how the split affected her. “My twenty-five-year-long marriage blew up.

It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,” she wrote, per People. “I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety.

I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified,” she added. Maria and Arnold got married in 1986, and share Katherine, 35, Christina, 33, Patrick, 31, and Christopher, 27, together.

In 2011, Arnold admitted to having an affair with house staffer Mildred Baena, which resulted in the birth of Joseph Baena. Maria filed for divorce that year, but it did not get finalized until 2021.