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Arnold Schwarzenegger says sexual harassment lessons have cured him of inappropriate behaviour towards women.

The Terminator star was hit by 16 "sex pest" claims while running for the governorship of California.

Although he denied being a serial groper, Schwarzenegger admitted there was "no smoke without fire" and started an anti-harassment course.

"I learned my lesson," he told Vanity Fair. "I had several harassment lessons ... I know now what can be said and what can't be said. Now I would not even tell someone I like their outfit. It could go south."

In the magazine interview, Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver told of her hurt when the 16 women came forward to make lurid claims about the star. "This was painful. Flat-out tough, painful, no doubt about it," she said.

Asked if she believed the women's claims, she replied: "You have to know your own truth. You have to know the person in front of you."

Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, admitted her marriage could be a "struggle".

But the former TV news reporter said she remained madly in love with her husband reports the Evening Standard.

"After all these years we are still engaged with each other, hot for each other, into each other," she said.

The couple married 18 years ago and have four children - Katherine, 15, Christiana, 13, Patrick, 11, and Christopher, seven.