He’s bought jokes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a uncommon remark about ex-wife Maria Shriver whereas selling his latest vacation film, “The Man With the Bag,” at Amazon’s Upfront 2025 Presentation in New York Metropolis on Monday.
The 77-year-old “Terminator” star likened the upcoming flick to a different Christmas traditional he starred in, “Jingle All the Way.” He then poked enjoyable at Shriver, who filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger in 2011 after 25 years of marriage.
“‘Jingle All the Way’ was the greatest Christmas movie of all time,” he stated in the course of the occasion, per Individuals. “They play it the whole month of December.”
“I know,” Schwarzenegger added, “because my ex-wife calls me about the residual.”
Schwarzenegger beforehand opened up about his break up from Shriver, 69, in September 2023 earlier than the discharge of his “Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life” motivational e book.
Though Shriver filed for divorce from the “Conan the Barbarian” star in 2011, the pair didn’t finalize their break up till December 2021.
“We never left the chapter,” he defined to Individuals on the time. “Because remember, it’s not like we had a feud. We didn’t have a fight. It’s just my f–k up, right?”
“She said, ‘OK, this is what it is,’ and then she decided to make a split,” Schwarzenegger continued, “so it was her decision.”
“But the fact is,” he added, “we always made it very clear that the kids should not suffer because of that.”
Shriver filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger two months after he revealed he fathered a secret son, Joseph Baena, now 27, in 1997 with the household’s housekeeper, Mildred Baena.
The “Total Recall” actor and Shriver have 4 youngsters collectively: Christopher, 27, Patrick, 31, Christina, 33, and Katherine, 35. Regardless of their break up, the pair remains to be glad co-parents to their grownup youngsters.
“My chapter with Maria will continue on forever,” the previous governor of California stated in September 2023. “Even though it’s a different relationship, there’s no reason for me to feel anything other than love for her.”
As for Shriver, she opened up in regards to the couple’s surprising break up this 12 months with the discharge of her “I Am Maria” e book.
She referred to as the divorce “brutal,” and admitted that she was left “terrified” within the wake of the “devastating” and “life-altering blow.”
“It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me,” the previous journalist wrote. “Without my marriage, my parents, a job — the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial just blew apart.”
“Honestly, it was brutal,” she added, “and I was terrified.”
Shriver additionally clarified that she is now in “such a good place” after the preliminary shock of the divorce, and that she and Schwarzenegger are “still in conversation” because of their youngsters and grandchildren.
“We laugh a lot about our kids, our grandkids, ourselves, and we are proud of the fact that we are still in conversation,” she stated in March. “For almost 50 years!”
