7 Most Surprising Details From Netflix’s Arnold Schwarzenegger Doc

He Lost Both His Father and Brother In a Short Time

Arnold’s brother Meinhard Schwarzenegger died in a car accident in 1971 at the age of 24.

“I was stunned. He was always the darling of the family. He was very artistic. Very smart. Read a lot. But, I don’t think my brother ever was really happy. I think he started drinking because our upbringing was very tough. The brutality there was at home, the beatings that we got from our parents sometimes, all of this I think he could not sustain that punishment. He was much more delicate of a person by nature,” Schwarzenegger says in the docuseries.

A year later in 1972, Schwarzenegger’s father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, died of a stroke.

“I went to visit my father in the hospital. He was not able to communicate. He needed a lot of medical attention, but I did not know — is this was something you can overcome or not? That I did not know. I flew back to Los Angeles, and after that, he passed away,” Schwarzenegger says.

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