
Maria Shriver Says She Was 'Consumed With Grief' After Arnold Schwarzenegger Split
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Shriver filed for divorce after Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with the family's housekeeper.
Maria Shriver says she was “consumed with grief” over the end of her relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The journalist is sharing about the breakdown of her 25-year marriage in her new book, “I Am Maria,” out next month.
“It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,” Shriver wrote of the split in an excerpt published by People magazine on Monday.
“I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety,” she wrote. “I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified.”
While the “devastating, life-altering blow” changed her life forever, Shriver doesn’t dwell on ― or even write about ― Schwarzenegger’s admission that he had fathered a child with the couple’s longtime housekeeper, Mildred Baena.