household staffer. here is maria shriver s brief statement. this is a painful and heartbreaking time. my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect, and privacy as my children and i rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. it s barely been a week since the couple s separation which followed schwarzenegger s term as governor. people say that shriver had had enough before this announcement. maria has been miserable in this marriage for several years and made that very clear to people who knew her and part of the reason was the womanizing. so it s not just one incident that set maria off, by any means, and it was also arnold s ego. she felt ignored by him. schwarzenegger has confirmed news of the child which was broken by the l.a. times. the mother, according to
has been seriously talking about divorce. that her religious views have created conflict for her. and also, arnold s power over here has created conflict over here. that with all that went on, he has tremendous emotional power over here. he has and he has used that, wants desperately to get back with her. so she feels conflicted. and it looked as if it was going to happen, apparently a while ago. and then just didn t. so maria has chosen, for whatever reason, not to pull the trigger. and formally try and end the marriage. but that certainly is a possibility. i want to just remind our viewers of arnold schwarzenegger s statement. after leaving the governor s office, i told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger ask disappointment among my friends and family. there are no excuses, and i take full responsibility for the hurt i have caused. i have apologized to maria, my children and my family. i am truly sorry. harvey
this under wraps? well, i all i can say, randi, is there is more to this story. we re going to be publishing information on the website shortly. but arnold was able to compartmentalize his life. one of the reasons maria separated. although this was a huge event, maria has been miserable in this marriage for several years. and made that very clear to people who knew her. and part of the reason was the womanizing. so it s not this one incident that set maria off, by any means. and it was also arnold s ego. she felt ignored by him. so this is not just, again, one person. arnold was abe to kind of deal with his family in one area and deal with the rest of his life in a different area. but there s more to the story we re going to be putting some things up shortly. and they have obviously separated. any idea on where they re headed now? what are you hearing? well, i am told that maria
when she found out. and she has taken steps, you know, to get a business manager, to kind of create a plan. and this has been months ago to kind of end this marriage. though she has not pulled the trigger. but we absolutely heard about this, and his people and what just trying to stonewall it. what are you hearing in terms of specifics about the child? he or she has to be about 10 years old now. it would seem the child is about 10 years old. the way the way we are hearing it, arnold didn t just decide one day to tell maria. it started to unravel, and he was forced to tell maria. but that s kind of the way this thing went down. and they were doing everything they could to hide this thing. so, you know, on two levels, this remained a mystery for a lot longer than you would expect. and if my math is correct, this staffer worked for schwarzenegger and shriver for quite some time after this child was born. any idea how he managed to keep
name to protect her privacy. but the staffer recently retired on good terms with the couple after working with them for 20 years. moments ago, maria shriver released this statement. this is a painful and heartbreaking time. as a mother, my concern is for the children. i ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and i try to rebuild our lives and heal. i will have no further comment. tmz harvey levin joins he in now. and harvey, you knew about this child five days ago, apparently, but you didn t report it. i m curious as to why. well, his people were just, you know, impervious on this, and just not true, not true, not true. and some of them absolutely knew. there s absolutely no doubt. this is one of those things where i felt it was important to get some kind of confirmation from them before reporting it. but maria has talked about it some. she was devastated by this. i m told literally inconsolable