Arnold Schwarzenegger shocked the world when the accomplished actor and former bodybuilder decided to contest the ruling California gubernatorial election in 2003. It didn’t really shock the world when the rumors of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s affair were confirmed and that the emergence of an illegitimate son with his maid, Mildred Patricia Baena, was just the icing on top.
In 2011, her 25-year-old marriage crashed before an iceberg and ended in divorce. Here’s everything you need to know about the Arnold Schwarzenegger case in 5 highlights.
Both Arnold and Patricia have been involved in extramarital affairs
As of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s affair with his housekeeper Patricia, they were both married. Arnold was still with his wife, American journalist, activist and best-selling author, Maria Shriver, while Patricia was still with his wife, Rogelio de Jesus.
No one knows for sure if this was a once-in-a-lifetime affair or a long-term affair, but the dirty trick definitely happened in 1997. A disturbing fact is that Maria and Patricia were both pregnant at the same time and gave birth at only 5 days apart. E! News therefore provided him with the sperminator. In conclusion, it was cheating on both sides.
Arnold didn’t know he had an illegitimate son for 7 or 8 years
Despite the fact that Patricia was still an active member of Schwarzenegger’s household after the birth of their son, Joseph, Arnold claims he had no idea the baby was his. Obviously, he forgot that unprotected sex could lead to unexpected babies. Often, Patricia even brought her son to the Schwarzeneggers while she was working.
We guess it was on one of those occasions Arnold realized that the boy looked like him and he started to put things together. Schwarzenegger said of his epiphany, he immediately began sending extra money to his maid without discussing his discovery. Both were obviously very adept at conveying non-verbal messages, but you haven’t heard that from us.
Schwarzenegger’s sexual misconduct had put him in the hot seat before
It wasn’t the first time Schwarzenegger had been called out for his infidelity. In 2003, during his campaign for governor, the actor was involved in a scandal called “Gropegate”. Very clever! Apparently, Arnold was known to have had the “sensation of smell” from time to time. Arnold has been accused of sexually assaulting multiple women for 25 years. Trouble is, this story surfaced five days before the 2003 California state gubernatorial election.
Six ladies, who apparently worked on his films, each came up with a different tale. Four of the women remained unnamed, but the other two were Elaine Stockton, wife of bodybuilder Robby Robinson and Anna Richardson, British TV presenter. Through it all, his wife supported him and even defended him on the Oprah Winfrey Show: “I look at him with an open heart and accept him with all his strengths and all his weaknesses, as he makes me “. It certainly sounds like a movie story.
Arnold is no good at full disclosure
We heard the stories and heard the news, and in doing so, we realized that Arnold Schwarzenegger had serious issues with full disclosure. His motto seems to be “don’t say it unless you’re pushed to the wall”. According to CNN, Schwarzenegger confessed that he wanted to hide his heart surgery in 1997 from his 11-year-old pregnant wife, Maria Shriver. He also said he didn’t tell Shriver about his plans to run for governor of California in 2003 until days before his campaign announcement.
Closer to the subject of his infidelity, after the news went public, his wife had to confront him and probe deeper in order to get the identity of her lover. She also constantly asked him if Joseph was her son before admitting him at a marriage counseling meeting a few months before their marriage ended.
Arnold still maintains a good relationship with all of his family members.
Despite the painful split with his wife, Schwarzenegger is determined to maintain a good relationship with his wife and children. Christopher, 18, Patrick, 22, Christina, 25, and Katherine, 26, and her son Joseph, now 18. He told the Mirror: ‘It’s fantastic including my fifth child with Mildred. He is wonderful and he understands the situation perfectly. So everything worked. I am very happy to have a good relationship with my family, because it was not always the case”.
In light of everything that’s happened, we can say the star has made the best of a very sticky situation and we give him a thumbs up.