(CNN) More than a decade before the #MeToo movement, Arnold Schwarzenegger was accused by multiple women of groping and humiliating them.

The year was 2003 and the "Terminator" star was running for governor of California.

He denied the allegations at the time and his campaign chalked it up to an escalating political attack against him.

Schwarzenegger now says "Looking back, I stepped over the line several times, and I was the first one to say sorry."

"I feel bad about it, and I apologize. When I became governor, I wanted to make sure that no one, including me, ever makes this mistake," he recently told Men's Health. "That's why we took sexual-harassment courses, to have a clear understanding, from a legal point of view and also from a regular behavior point of view, of what is accepted and what is not."

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