Arnold Schwarzenegger Addresses His History of Groping Women: ‘It Was Wrong’

In 2003, the Los Angeles Times published the accounts of multiple women who accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexually touching them without their consent.

Schwarzenegger, who was running for California governor at the time, denied misconduct, saying that he "never grabbed anyone."

Now, he's sharing a different response in his upcoming Netflix documentary series, Arnold.

"My reaction in the beginning, I was kind of…defensive," Schwarzenegger said, per Rolling Stone. "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 bulls---. Forget all the excuses, it was wrong."

Three women told the L.A. Times that Schwarzenegger grabbed their breasts. A fourth woman said that he reached under her skirt and grabbed her bottom. A fifth women said he groped her in an elevator and tried to remove her swimsuit. A sixth woman said the actor pulled her onto his lap and asked her if she had ever had a particular sexual act performed on her.

Schwarzenegger also used Arnold as a vehicle to come clean about his affair with his housekeeper Mildred Baena, which was revealed in 2011. The former governor said in the documentary that he told his then wife Maria Shriver that he was the father of Baena's son, Joseph, during a counseling session.

"In one of the sessions the counselor said, 'I think today Maria wants to be very specific about something. She wants to know if you are the father of Joseph,'" Schwarzenegger recalled. "And I was like — I thought my heart stopped, and then I told the truth."

He added: "She was crushed."

Arnold debuts Wednesday on Netflix.