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Written by: Joe Donatelli

Schwarzenegger Kept Secrets from Maria Shriver Because He Thought She Was an Emotional Gossip

'That's the way I handle things. And it always has worked,' Yes, apparently.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new book out, which means he's doing press, which means he's dishing dirt on his marriage to Maria Shriver. The book, by the way, is called "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," because apparently the publisher thought it would go over better than "True Lies: How I Lied to Everyone With My Lies for Decades."

Schwarzenegger says he kept many secrets from Shriver because he was afraid she would overreact and tell her powerful family and friends. That's sweet. His attitude was, "I want to reap all of the benefits of a politically advantageout marriage while suffering none of the consequences." Someone ought to knit that on a throw pillow.

He admits to multiple affairs and eventually admitted in a counseling session with his wife to fathering a love child with the family's housekeeper, an act, one presumes, he undertook because his housekeeper could be trusted because she was not friends with Oprah.

"That's the way I handle things. And it always has worked. But, I mean it does not — it's not the best thing for people around me because I sometimes — some information I just keep to myself," Schwarzenegger told reporter Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes."
 
Schwarzenegger said in the interview that his marriage and his family were the most important things in his life.
 
Clearly.
 
Tags: Politics   Marriage

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Joe Donatelli has written for the Los Angeles Times, Scripps-Howard News Service, Slate, Brides, Salon, Babble, Shape, Cracked and other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was born in Cleveland, lives in Los Angeles and is a proud graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @joedonatelli
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