Schwarzenegger memoir details 'failures' over his love child_美文

Schwarzenegger memoir details 'failures' over his love child

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says his estranged wife has not read his upcoming memoir in which he discusses the secret child he fathered with a family housekeeper.

But in a TV interview with the CBS program 60 Minutes, the action star-turned politician said he was determined to write a book that included what he called his "failures" as well as his successful and multifaceted career.

Schwarzenegger's book Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, is to be published on October 1st.

Publisher Simon & Schuster has said the former California governor began writing it before the May 2011 scandal over the son he fathered years earlier with his housekeeper while married to Maria Shriver. The revelations led the couple to start divorce proceedings ending their 25-year marriage, and brought media ridicule for the Terminator star.

In the interview with 60 Minutes, to be broadcast in full on Sept 30, journalist Lesley Stahl asked Schwarzenegger, 65, if Shriver knew he was writing about the affair in his book.

"I think that Maria is, you know, wishing me well with everything that I do," he replied, in an excerpt shown on Monday on the breakfast show CBS This Morning.

While admitting that Shriver had not read the memoir, Schwarzenegger said: "She knows that it's about my whole life and that I would not write a book and kind of leave out that part and make people feel like, 'Well, wait a minute. Are we just getting a book about his success stories and not talk about his failures?' And that's not the book I wanted to write. I wanted to write a book about me. Here's my life."