Schwarzenegger opens up about affair on "60 Minutes"

earlier we saw a piece of last night's sixty minutes interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger we want to show you more of that interview that you did not see last night in this part of the conversation Lesley Stahl as Schwarzenegger about his current relationship with his estranged wife Maria Shriver and their children apologized many times to her did she ever ask you for forgiveness and I hope that down the line she will be able to forgive me for that you write in the book that you still love her are you trying to get her back I have always loved her and from the first moment when I met her and she has been an extraordinary woman she has been an extraordinary wife friend lover everything and so she does not she did not deserve that that's I can tell you and it's why I felt always terrible about the whole thing but do you want to go back and then you want the marriage back or is it over where does well right now being divorce that's happening so that's happening yes have your children forgiven you I cannot tell you that I hope today they will end it and you know as time goes on I hope that everyone will forgive me for that weren't they angry at you I think that each one reacted so differently I think the girls were very upset the boys were disappointed but they tried to be you know and it was very they have a half-brother mm-hmm it was never relationship with him now I don't want to go into those details because like I said the me I want to make sure that I don't cause them more pain you wrote that if you told her then she would tell her family and you'd be afraid that it would spinach with him there which exactly would is that how it got out what time she said interesting it was a perfect proof how quickly those things go out let me ask you an impression I had in reading the book was the marriage over anyway no it was a marriage in trouble he was seeing them it was it was really a lot of strain on the marriage being in Sacramento and spending that much time and doing the people's work and I have heard so many times in Moorea is one men a beginning that a lot of relationships when you're politician have a tendency of falling apart or getting hit because of having to spend so much time on your work and I saw it all of a sudden happening that I got so engrossed in the work and I got so kind of fanatic about it to solving the problems that many times we had budget discussions to midnight to 6:00 in the morning and there were the boats and there was all the stuff coming up the initiatives were coming up and had to be out campaigning at the be out the raising money and you know it's such a big commitment that now I had to follow through and all of a sudden you know I had a scene which I described also in the book where I came home and obviously one of my kids started crying and saying daddy you didn't come to my recital and then of a sudden the next kid said yeah and he didn't come to my football game and yeah and then didn't my my daughter was saying yeah and he didn't come to my dance and you never round and then all of a sudden all of the kids were crying and Maria was saying go ahead just express yourself kids I think daddy needs to hear that

Channel: CBS News

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Keywords: cbsepisode, 60, minutes, arnold, schwarzenegger, maria, shriver, housekeeper, child, family, interview, book, governor, california, total, recall, life, cheat, wife, lie

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Length: 3min 54sec (234 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 01 2012