With Arnold Schwarzenegger hawking his new memoir, Total Recall, he’s busy conducting endless interviews about his life. Just yesterday, he was talking about how he married two gay couple when he was Governor Of California (although he refused to say he was for gay marriage itself).
Now Contact Music reports he’s been chatting to the US talk show 60 Minutes about the fact that when he was a teen his mother thought he might be gay, seemingly because his bedroom walls were covered in half naked male bodybuilders (so not altogether an unreasonable thought on her part then).
“I don’t know if mum thought I was gay,” Arnie says, “Or if she just thought there was something off. And ‘let’s catch it early’” His father apparently thought the best way to deal with Schwarzenegger’s suspected homosexuality was with violence. He “ran after me with a belt and beat me”, says Arnie.
However his mother took him to a doctor, in an attempt to “cure” him. ”She asked the doctor, ‘Can you help me? I don’t know if there’s something wrong with my son because his wall is full of naked men. All of Arnold’s friends have pictures of girls above their bed. And Arnold has no girls’.”
Arnie of course was a bodybuilder himself and won the Mr. Universe title before becoming and actor.
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