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Arnold Schwarzenegger Writes Tell-All Damn, Arnold Schwarzenegger has penned his own tell-all called ‘The Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story’ and it looks like it’s all coming out now: According to NY Daily News ,’ In an explosive tell-all book, Arnold Schwarzenegger offers “Total Recall” of the infidelity that ruined his marriage — revealing his wife confronted him about his love child in couples counseling. “The Terminator” actor writes that Maria Shriver waited until a day after he left the California governor’s office in 2011 to confirm her long-held suspicion that he was a cheater. “The minute we sat down, the therapist turned to me and said, ‘Maria wanted to come here today and to ask about a child — whether you fathered a child with your housekeeper Mildred,’ ” Schwarzenegger writes in “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.” “I told the therapist, ‘It’s true,’ ” Schwarzenegger recounts in the memoir, set to hit bookstores on Oct. 1. The Daily News obtained a copy of the book in which Schwarzenegger candidly tells of his journey from a rural town in Austria to becoming a Mr. Universe bodybuilder, Hollywood superstar and powerful politician. He waits until near the end of the 624-page tome to describe the fling with his married housekeeper Mildred Baena and the secret son he kept from his wife for 15 years. He admitted to Shriver in the Jan. 4, 2011, faceoff that “it was my screwup” and immediately began groveling, telling her she was the “perfect wife” and assuring her that he was still “turned on” by her. He divulges that he had sex with Baena in 1996 in the guesthouse of his Pacific Palisades, Calif., mansion while Shriver was away on vacation with their kids and he was stuck in Hollywood working on the flick “Batman & Robin.” When Baena gave birth, she named the baby Joseph and listed her husband as the father — and Schwarzenegger writes that he “wanted” to believe that — and did — for years. He writes that he kept Baena on as housekeeper because he thought that was the best way to “control the situation.” He reveals that many years before the marriage-counseling showdown, Shriver asked him if the child was his, but he adamantly denied it. Schwarzenegger explains that Shriver implied she had already confronted Baena and learned the truth. He claims that for a long time he even convinced himself that the boy was not his. But as Joseph grew older, he began to look more and more like Schwarzenegger until the “The Running Man” actor could no longer run from his responsibility. The resemblance was so strong that “I realized there was little doubt that he was my son,” writes Schwarzenegger. He adds that he was already governor of California when Baena’s husband left her and he began secretly supporting her and her children financially. Schwarzenegger, who has four children with Shriver, reasons that politically he was doing the right thing by concealing his illegitimate son because he had not campaigned for governor on family values. “I blocked out the fact that as a husband and father, as a man with a family and wife, I was letting people down,” he writes. But Schwarzenegger clearly believes in Hollywood endings, adding that he still has hope he and Shriver will get back together. “You can call this denial,” he writes, “but it’s the way my mind works.” Wow… this guy is something else.

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Terminator’s New Book: “I Tossed The Ensalada (Salad) Of My Housekeeper And Lied To My Wife About My Pequeño … So What!?”