Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Past Groping Allegations in New Docuseries: 'It Was Wrong'

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is speaking out. Rolling Stone writes that in his upcoming Netflix docuseries Arnold, the 75-year-old actor reportedly addressed allegations that he had groped six women.

The claims stem from a 2003 report from the Los Angeles Times, published five days before the California governor election. At the time, Arnold said the allegations were “made up” and said that he “never grabbed anyone.” However, he also acknowledged that he had “behaved badly sometimes” in the past. Keep reading to find out what he said in the new docuseries… “My reaction in the beginning, I was kind of… defensive,” Arnold said in the docuseries. “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–t. Forget all the excuses, it was wrong.” Arnold ultimately won the election, with Los Angeles Times reporter Carla Hall adding in the docuseries that she was “surprised” that the news story didn’t have more of an impact. “I thought that more people would be offended themselves,” she recalled. “When Schwarzenegger announced he was running for governor, the staff of the LA Times immediately went into high gear to start looking into stories that we had heard for years, but no one had actually investigated them fully,” she continued. “We had barely six weeks to work on this, and we started talking to women.” Arnold is set to debut on June 7 on Netflix.