Arnold Schwarzenegger made a joke about his ex-wife, Maria Shriver, whereas honoring journalist Chris Wallace at his Hollywood Stroll of Fame ceremony on Thursday, September 18.
Schwarzenegger, 78, feted Wallace, 77, throughout Thursday’s occasion, describing him as a “incredible journalist.”
“I do know quite a bit about journalists. I’ve been interviewed — you may think about, in my lifetime — by 1000’s and 1000’s of journalists,” he mentioned. “However not solely that, I used to be additionally married to a journalist.”
The Terminator actor went on to quip, “The one distinction between Chris and Maria is that Chris has by no means taken half [of] my cash,” which prompted chuckles from the viewers.
Schwarzenegger and Shriver, 69, had been married for practically 25 years and have 4 kids collectively: Katherine, 35, Christina, 34, The White Lotus actor Patrick, 32, and Christopher, 27.
The couple tied the knot in April 1986 earlier than separating in Could 2011 amid reviews of Schwarzenegger’s infidelity. Schwarzenegger later admitted to fathering a son, Joseph Baena, with the household’s former housekeeper Mildred “Patty” Baena. Their divorce was finalized in December 2021, a decade after their cut up.
In response to a courtroom submitting obtained by Us Weekly in June 2022, as a part of their settlement settlement, Shriver is entitled to half of Schwarzenegger’s earnings, together with his pension, from the time they acquired married to when she filed for divorce.
In a Could 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Schwarzenegger mentioned of his divorce, “It was my f***up. It was my failure.”
Schwarzenegger mentioned that regardless of their cut up, “She and I are actually good buddies and really shut.”
“We’re very pleased with the best way we raised our youngsters,” he added. “Although we had this drama, we did Easter collectively, Mom’s Day collectively, the Christmases collectively, all birthdays — all the pieces collectively.”
“If there’s Oscars for easy methods to deal with divorce, Maria and I ought to get it for having the least quantity of influence on the youngsters,” the previous governor of California mentioned.
Shriver, in the meantime, opened up about her devastation over Schwarzenegger’s affair in her memoir I Am Maria, revealed in April.
Arnold Schwarzenegger performed many roles all through his spectacular profession. Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria in July 1947 because the son of a police officer. In 1968, the physique builder moved to the US to coach at Gold’s Fitness center in Los Angeles. All through his spectacular bodybuilding profession, he received seven first-place titles on the […]
“I used to be consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, worry, disappointment and nervousness. I used to be uncertain now of who I used to be, the place I belonged. Actually, it was brutal, and I used to be terrified,” Shriver wrote, noting that information of the affair broke quickly after the deaths of each of her dad and mom.
“As I sat on my lodge room flooring at midnight, alone with tears streaming down my face, I believed to myself: Maria, this doesn’t must be the tip of you,” she added.
