Last Updated:March 25, 2025, 04:20 IST Shriver filed for divorce in July 2011 after Schwarzenegger confessed during a marriage counselling session that he had fathered a secret child with their housekeeper. Arnold Schwarzenegger was married to Maria Shriver for 25 years before she learned of his infidelity. Maria Shriver has opened up about the emotional turmoil she endured following her shocking divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. In her upcoming memoir, I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing and Finding Your Home, the 69-year-old journalist candidly recounts how her marriage ended after 25 years, leaving her “terrified and broken.” Shriver filed for divorce in July 2011 after Schwarzenegger confessed during a marriage counselling session that he had fathered a secret child with their housekeeper, Mildred Baena, over a decade earlier. Their divorce, however, was not finalised until December 2021. “It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,” Shriver writes in the memoir, as reported by People. She adds, “Without my marriage, my parents, a job — the …