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"Arnold Schwarzenegger has revisited historical allegations of groping in a new
documentary series about his life and career.
In 2003, shortly before his re-election as governor of California, the
Los
Angeles Times published a report detailing claims of groping by six women
across three decades.
Speaking at the time, Schwarzenegger dismissed the allegations before later
conceding he had “behaved badly” on film sets. “It is true that I was on rowdy
movie sets and I have done things that were not right which I thought then was
playful,” he said.
He added: “But now I recognise that I offended people. I want to say to them I
am deeply sorry about that and I apologise because that’s not what I’m trying
to do.”
In the forthcoming three-part documentary series
Arnold, Schwarzenegger says
his initial reaction was “defensive”.
“Today, I can look at it and kind of say, it doesn’t really matter what time it
is. If it’s the Muscle Beach days of 40 years ago, or today, that this was
wrong. It was bullshit. Forget all the excuses, it was wrong.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
