Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78, has made a rare sighting with his very private girlfriend of 14 years, Heather Milligan, 51.
They were side by side to support his The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative at the Austrian World Summit on Tuesday in Vienna, Austria.
The main event was held at the historic Hofburg Palace.
The lovebirds were joined by former US Vice-President Kamala Harris, Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen and Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker.
The annual conference’s main goal is, according to its organizers, ‘to offer a broad platform for concrete solutions and successful ideas that motivate and act as role models as well as connect people, businesses and climate leaders.’
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78, has made a rare sighting with very private girlfriend of 14 years, Heather Milligan, 51
They were side by side to support his The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative on Tuesday in Vienna, Austria
The couple met after Schwarzenegger called on the physical therapist to help him after he had shoulder surgery.
In 2012, Schwarzenegger had just had shoulder surgery and was preparing to shoot his film Escape Plan with Stallone, who referred him to Milligan for physical therapy.
Stallone told him: ‘There’s only one, it’s Heather – any athlete, I always send them to her, because she’s the only one that really knows what they’re talking about.’
Schwarzenegger recalled: ‘So I went to her, and then after my therapy was finished, after I was finished with the movie, I called her back and took her out for lunch to say thank you. And then one thing led to the next,’ per People.
He remarked in 2023 that he paid visits to Milligan’s Los Angeles clinic Elite OrthoSport, where her patients include sportsmen from the NFL, the NBA and WWE.
‘I schmooze with them while they’re getting therapy, because I admire them, they’re great athletes. Even though a lot of them make me feel like a little chicken,’ he said.
Schwarzenegger raved that their relationship was ‘fantastic,’ noting she ‘grew up tough’ and gushing: ‘We have so many things in common. I think the world of her.’
The movie star posed with former US Vice-President Kamala Harris and Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen
He added, ‘I love that she’s into working. She’s clearly independent. She just is driven as hell.’
They have kept their romance largely out of the public eye.
They were last seen in April as they went to dinner at Nobu Malibu, a favorite of the Kardashians.
Before that their last public sighting was in April 2025, when they were glimpsed stepping out to dinner at the Santa Monica celebrity hot spot Giorgio Baldi.
They were with US diplomat Edward Djerejian, who has served as an ambassador to both Syria and Israel, via Hola!
(L-R) Christina Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2017
Before Milligan, Schwarzenegger was wed to John F. Kennedy’s niece Maria Shriver.
Shriver left Schwarzenegger in the wake of the scandal that engulfed the family when it emerged he had fathered a son with their housekeeper Mildred Baena.
That son, Joseph Baena, is now 28 and has followed in Schwarzenegger’s footsteps to become a bodybuilder under the mentorship of his proud father.
Schwarzenegger and Shriver are still on good terms and even posed with their children in 2017.
