A documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger is available on Netflix. The actor comes back in particular to his private life and his affair with his housekeeper.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is everywhere on Netflix: in the action series Fubarbut also in a documentary in three episodes, entitled Arnold, available since June 7. The actor and former governor of California details his professional career, but also his private life … and what he himself calls one of his personal “failures”. Accused by six women of touching in 2003, the actor, then in the electoral campaign, had denied in block. He apologizes today and admits what he did was “wrong”.
But that’s not the only thing he says he regrets in the Netflix documentary. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes revelations about his long-hidden son, Joseph Baena. While the actor, now 75, was married to Maria Shriver (from 1986 to 2011), he had an affair with her domestic worker, Mildred Baena, in 1996. From this affair was born, in the biggest secret, their son, now 25 years old.
“The older he got, the more it became obvious to me that he was my son”
“At first, I didn’t know I was his father, but I started to have a feeling, details the comedian and former bodybuilder in the Netflix documentary. The older he got, the more it became obvious to me that he was my son.”
In the documentary, the actor known for his role in Terminator looks back on a couples therapy session with his ex-wife in 2011, during which she asks him frontally if he is the father of their employee’s child. . “I felt like my heart had stopped,” recalls Arnold Schwarzenegger. “And then I told him the truth: ‘yes, Maria. Joseph is my son.’ Obviously it devastated her.”
The information then ends up leaking to the media, scratching the reputation of the former governor of California. “I’ve caused my family enough pain because of my bullshit. Because of all that, everyone has suffered: Maria, the children, Joseph…everyone. It’s a huge failure. I I’ll have to live with this for the rest of my life.”
Today, despite the divorce, Arnold Schwarzeneger claims to still maintain a good relationship with his children, Joseph included, but also with his ex-wife Maria Shriver.