But on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday, when asked why he didn't come clean about Joseph for so long while continuing to pay for the boy's education and giving Mildred extra money, the Terminator star revealed he was driven by fear.
"I was just, I think, too scared about losing everything, too scared about losing her, losing the family and I just didn't know how," he said, adding that he didn't fire Baena because he felt it would've made things "worse" and he could control the situation better.
"It was the best way I could handle it," he answered, chalking it up to his penchant for denial again.
That wasn't the only fling. The 65-year-old actor admitted last week to engaging in a "hot affair" with his Red Sonja costar Brigitte Nielsen while he was living with Shriver, but he said that dalliance convinced him to marry the NBC journalist and Kennedy scion.
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