Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving his own meaning to heaven and death.
The 75-year-old actor approached the topic after being asked by Danny DeVito, 78, “What’s in the future for us” during an in-depth conversation for Interview Magazine.
“It reminds me of Howard Stern’s question to me. ‘Tell me, governor, what happens to us when we die?’ I said, ‘Nothing. You’re 6 feet under. Anyone that tells you something else is a f—ing liar,'” he said.
“I said, ‘We don’t know what happens with the soul and all this spiritual stuff that I’m not an expert in, but I know that the body as we see each other now, we will never see each other again like that,'” continued Schwarzenegger.
While the former bodybuilder added that death is a topic he feels uncomfortable with, he shared that heaven, in his mind, is a “fantasy.”
“When people talk about, ‘I will see them again in heaven,’ it sounds so good, but the reality is that we won’t see each other again after we’re gone. That’s the sad part. I know people feel comfortable with death, but I don’t,'” he said.
Revealing that he’s lost “15 friends in the last 20 or so years” from within the bodybuilding industry, Schwarzenegger shared that he’s given a new definition to heaven.
“To me, heaven is where I put a person who I love dearly, who is kind, who is generous, who made a difference in my life and other people’s lives,” he said.
“I keep them in a spot in my head, like that front row that you have of all of your friends. And you always have a good feeling when you think of them.”
The former California governor is also expected to get candid about his trials and tribulations in a new three-part documentary, Arnold, which begins streaming on Netflix on Wednesday.
According to an official synopsis, the docuseries “chronicles Arnold Schwarzenegger’s journey from the countryside of Austria to the highest echelons of the American dream” and contains interviews with Schwarzenegger along with “friends, foes, costars, and observers.”
Unapologetically Schwarzenegger. He’s honest.
Arnold’s/Kennedy’s Catholic Church will be Excommunicating him for telling the truth… No wonder he couldn’t stay with Maria Kennedy Shriver…
Well, with a mindset like that of course he will never see heaven, but I think hell is a real possibility
For we Americans, RELIGIONS are evil foreign psychotic mass murderous mental illness and an ADDICTION to being LIED TO, an ENFORCED PSYCHOSIS, and, of course, written orders from their evil handbooks for their customers to automatically instantly HATE, HURT, and MASS MURDER everyone on the planet not of the exact same religion…
Yeah, I’m going to align my religious beliefs with those of a failure governor and an old, broken-down body builder because he “says so”. There are so many strong religious leaders with whom I grow my faith.