Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong> and Maria Shriver<\/strong> may be divorced, but an insider tells Globe<\/em> that she\u2019s still a huge influence on his life to this day and he would be totally lost without her.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re both very secure in their other relationships, Arnie with Heather<\/strong> [Milligan<\/strong>] and Maria with Matthew<\/strong> [Dowd<\/strong>], but that doesn\u2019t stop them from seeking each other out for advice and other reasons,\u201d the insider says. \u201cThey talk all the time. Mostly it\u2019s about the kids, but they are friendly and close enough that they confide details about their personal lives, knowing it won\u2019t go further.\u201d<\/p>\n The insider adds that the Terminator<\/em> star, 78, \u201calways looks to her for recipes and career choices and his financial affairs.\u201d Plus, Schwarzenegger is \u201calways happy to help with those home repairs when they come up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s been his rock and sounding board,\u201d the insider explains. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing remotely romantic about it. She\u2019s more of a maternal figure to him now and he doesn\u2019t know what he would do without her.\u201d<\/p>\n Schwarzenegger and Shriver, 69, began dating in 1977, and by 1986, they had officially tied the knot. Over the next several years, they welcomed four children together, but in 2011, they announced their separation after the former governor of California revealed he had fathered a son with their longtime housekeeper, Mildred \u201cPatty\u201d Baena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As Globe<\/em> previously reported<\/a>, last month, Schwarzenegger and Shriver, 69, reunited for dinner to celebrate their son Patrick Schwarzenegger\u2019s<\/strong> 32nd birthday at Nobu in Malibu, just days after the FUBAR<\/em> star joked about his divorce settlement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mega Agency Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver may be divorced, but an insider tells Globe that she\u2019s still a huge influence on his life to this day and he would be totally lost without her. \u201cThey\u2019re both very secure in their other relationships, Arnie with Heather [Milligan] and Maria with Matthew [Dowd], but that doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2067422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,25404],"class_list":["post-2067421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-exclusive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Talks-to-Ex-Maria-Shriver-\u2018All-the-Time.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067423,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067421\/revisions\/2067423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-and-maria-02-scaled.jpg\")