Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new tell-all memoir to promote, and he'll be on 60 Minutes this Sunday doing just that. The book is called (ahem) Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, and in Sunday's interview Schwarzenegger admits that his affair and subsequent love child with housekeeper Mildred Baena was "the stupidest thing I've done in the whole relationship" with wife Maria Shriver, from whom he's now separated.

Schwarzenegger tells Lesley Stahl in the interview, "It was terrible. I inflicted tremendous pain on Maria and unbelievable pain on the kids." Stahl really goes for the jugular too, saying at one point, "She gave up her television career for you. I mean wow."

Contrition like this seems to be in the book as well, and it serves as some kind of public apology to Shriver, but it's probably too little too late. The book also details how Shriver confronted him about the affair and the child he fathered with Baena one day after his term as governor ended.

And in another excerpt, Schwarzenegger gets in a dig at Karl Rove, who told him in 2003 that the recall election in California would never happen, and that he wanted to put Condoleezza Rice up for election as CA governor in 2006.

See the 60 Minutes preview below.

[CBS]
[People]
[Mercury-News]