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Flight Attendant Insists Her Son Was Not Fathered By Arnold Schwarzenegger

BREA (CBS) — It's unusual in a sex scandal for a woman to come forward and insist she didn't have sex or a child by the man in question...but that is exactly what an Orange County flight attendant is doing in regards to a child she bore eighteen years ago.

Tammy Tousignant
Tammy Tousignant (credit: CBS)

Tammy Tousignant denies Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered her son Tanner. And she denies any allegation of anything improper between her and the former actor.

She spoke exclusively with CBS2's Michele Gile to set the record straight.

She told Gile, "It's just an outright wrong. It's cruel and I don't deserve it. And my son doesn't deserve it."

The woman's lawyer also told reporters she had a DNA test to officially prove Schwarzenegger had nothing to do with her child's parentage. She told Gile she also took a polygraph test to prove her innocence.

When Schwarzenegger was running for governor, Tousignant's name surfaced as a possible mother of his love child.

It's a story she denied vehemently then as well as now. And when the story broke last week, that Schwarzenegger admitted to having a love child...all eyes again were focused on Tousignant.

For 12 years, until 1999, the Brea mother of two worked as a flight attendant on Schwarzenegger's private plane.

She tells Gile that "nothing" ever happened between them. "Nothing was inappropriate. Nothing ever happened. I worked for the man."

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