Arnold Schwarzenegger didn\u2019t hold back when reflecting on his past marriage to Maria Shriver during a Hollywood event this week.<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old actor was on hand Thursday, September 18, to help honor journalist Chris Wallace as he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. While praising Wallace, Schwarzenegger slipped in a pointed joke about his ex-wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know a lot about journalists. I\u2019ve been interviewed \u2014 you can imagine, in my lifetime \u2014 by thousands and thousands of journalists,\u201d he told the crowd<\/a>. \u201cBut not only that, I was also married to a journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s when he added the line that turned heads. \u201cThe only difference between Chris and Maria is that Chris has never taken half my money,\u201d he said, referring to Shriver.<\/p>\n Shriver, a former ABC reporter and member of the Kennedy family, was married to Schwarzenegger for nearly 25 years. The pair wed in 1986 and welcomed four children together \u2014 Katherine, Christina, Patrick, and Christopher. Their marriage unraveled in 2011 after it was revealed that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child, Joseph Baena, with the family\u2019s longtime housekeeper. Their divorce was finalized a decade later in 2021.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfac SIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/a> \ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n Shriver recently spoke out<\/a> about political commentator Charlie Kirk\u2019s death, making a controversial statement. She followed up her initial reaction to Kirk\u2019s death on September 10 with a strongly worded Instagram post, calling the tragedy a wake-up call for the nation as a whole. \u201cWe should all condemn political violence. A young life cut down. A young family left to pick up the pieces,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis is not just a tragedy for his family. This is a tragedy for our country. No matter where you are on [the] political spectrum. This is something we can all condemn. This is a moment to stop, reflect, and reassess.\u201d<\/p>\n Schwarzenegger, meanwhile, also shared his opinion on Kirk\u2019s death<\/a>. \u201cI was very, very upset that someone\u2019s life was taken because they have a different opinion. It\u2019s just unbelievable,” the former California governor said while speaking at University of Southern California’s International Day of Democracy celebrations. \u201cThis was a great communicator, a great advocate for the right \u2014 for Republican causes.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Sep 19, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger didn\u2019t hold back when reflecting on his past marriage to Maria Shriver during a Hollywood event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7172,321,25770,93,25771,61,60,7175],"class_list":["post-32326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-wallace","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maria-shriver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}