Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to come clean.
Former California governor admits to cheat on Maria Shriver with the family’s housekeeper while they were dating and then he admitted that he was also cheating her while the couple first start dating and living together.
According to the Associated Press the action star and former California governor confirms in his memoir, Total Recall, which hits shelves Monday, that he and Brigitte Nielsen had a “hot affair”. Schwarzenegger reportedly describes the relationship as a “fling,” and says it helped him realize that he wanted to marry Shriver.
Nielsen, who revealed the romance in her 2011 memoir You Only Get One Life, met Schwarzenegger when the two starred in the 1985 movie “Red Sonja.” At the time, Nielsen claims, she was unaware that Schwarzenegger was taken. “How serious it was with [Shriver], I don’t know,” Nielsen told the U.K.’s Daily Mail last year. “He never spoke about her — and the way he was living his life with me, I felt I was the only one. Then I realized about him and Maria and, wow, I felt cheated.”
Nielsen describes the affair with Schwarzenegger in her book as “outrageous” and based on an “energy” between them. “We both knew that when the film was finished, so were we,” Nielsen writes. “Time was limited so we didn’t hold back – we really made the most of it. The set lights would barely be off before we disappeared to do our thing. We wanted time to ourselves and we wanted to try everything. And when we were alone, that’s exactly what we did.” Now 49, the actress is best known for her marriage to another action star, and her “Rocky IV” co-star, Sylvester Stallone, from 1985 to 1987, and for unexpectedly coupling up with Flavor Flav when the two both appeared on the VH1 reality show “The Surreal Life” in 2004.
