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Arnold Schwarzenegger Forced To Admit He Fathered Illegitimate Child

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June 15 2011, Published 8:15 a.m. ET

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By Amber Goodhand

Breaking Celebrity News Staff Reporter

In the first interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s baby mama, Mildred Baena reveals that it may not have been the former Governor’s choice to publicly reveal the secret of their illegitimate child, Joseph.

Just one week after announcing he was separating from wife Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger dropped the bombshell that he’d fathered a son with his former housekeeper, but Breaking Celebrity News has learned he may have been forced into coming clean.

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“I’m sorry someone felt the need to expose this,” Baena said in this week’s National Enquirer, in what is dubbed as her message to Arnold.

“He knows I would never say or do anything to hurt him. He’s a good man and I know he’s suffering too.”

That statement alone is an intriguing clue as to what may have been going on behind the scenes in the days leading up to Schwarzenegger’s confession and alludes to the notion that someone else was in on the secret they’d held for nearly 14 years.

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Baena claims in the interview that Shriver confronted her about Joseph, asking her “point blank” if Arnold was the father, to which she broke down and the truth was revealed.

“Since I was retiring soon, I said I would pack and leave right away, but she said to stay until after the holidays,” Baena recalled of her c