Maria Shriver is certainly not going into hiding because of her husband's bad behavior (and why should she?!). She attended a star-studded taping of Oprah's goodbye episode last night in Chicago. Oprah is a very good friend and has taken Maria under her wing during all of this turmoil.
Shriver faced thousands of Oprah fans at the event... less than 24 hours after she split with Arnold Schwarzenegger who admitted he fathered a child with the family's housekeeper more than a decade ago.
In a gorgeous blue gown, looking strong, Shriver told Oprah, "For more than 30 years you have bestowed upon me the most amazing friendship... You have shown love, support, wisdom, and most of all (long pause).....the truth."
Oprah got the crowd going when she repeated the words "The Truth!" while hanging onto her friend.
Reports are that Shriver was actually at dinner with Oprah this past Sunday when she received a call telling her that the story of Arnold's illegitimate child was breaking in the Los Angeles Times.
Attention is now turning to the housekeeper, identified by the New York Times as 50-year-old Mildred Patricia Baena. The street Baena lives on in Bakersfield, CA is filled with media, on-lookers and police.
Neighbors say the boy is about 13 years old. A growing number of gossip websites are also claim that Baena and Schwarzenegger's love child is the same age as Arnold and Maria's youngest child, Christopher. TMZ says "the two kids were born less than a WEEK APART -- Maria's son Christopher was born on September 27, 1997 ... and Mildred's love child was born on October 2, 1997." TMZ also reports that Baena didn't tell Schwarzenegger that he was the father until the child was a toddler.
Shriver says right now as a mother, her concern is for her children. In a statement she asked for "compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal."
While she said she would have no further comment, two of her children did have something else to say via Twitter. 17-year-old Patrick tweeted “"Some days you feel like s**t, some days you want to quit and just be normal for a bit, yet i love my family till death do us apart."
His sister 21-year-old sister, Katherine, tweeted, “This is definitely not easy but I appreciate your love and support as I begin to heal and move forward.”
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