Schwarzenegger memoir includes 'failures' over love child

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - Arnold Schwarzenegger says his estranged wife has not read his upcoming memoir in which he discusses the secret child he fathered with a family housekeeper.

But in a television interview with CBS program 60 Minutes, the action star turned politician said he was determined to write a book that included what he called his "failures" as well as his successful and multi-faceted career.

Schwarzenegger's book Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, is to be published on Oct 1.

Publisher Simon & Schuster has said the former California governor began writing it before the May 2011 scandal over the son he fathered years earlier with his housekeeper while married to Maria Shriver.