Maria Shriver went to a convent following her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger to 'be in silence and look for advice.'
"I went to a convent, a cloistered convent, and to be in silence and look for advice," Shriver shared, telling Kotb she was searching for guidance following the dissolution of her marriage."And the reverend mother there … I actually have written about this but I haven't shared it, she said, 'I think you came here looking for permission.
Shriver and Schwarzenegger were married in 1986 and separated in 2011, but did not finalize their divorce until 2021. The former couple shares four children -- Katherine, 32, Christina, 31, Patrick, 29, and Christopher, 25 -- and were married throughout Schwarzenegger's tenure as governor of California, from 2003 to 2011.
This week, Shriver -- a member of the Kennedy family -- added that she spent much of her life feeling invisible alongside her family and ex-husband.
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