The alleged “disgusting” incident you describe is made all the more disgusting by its never having happened. Irksome to me is the assumption that anyone would have to speak up for me in such a situation. More deeply troubling is the apparent ease with which your publication printed such fantasy constructs.

Let me be perfectly clear. In my nearly 20 years of friendship with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I have never witnessed any hint of the behavior you so care lessly ascribe to him. I have known and witnessed Arnold on set as a man who is tirelessly professional and, in life, as a singularly de voted husband, father, and family man.

— Linda Hamilton