Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has confessed in a recent interview that he stepped over the line several times with women and he feels bad about it now.

Sexual harassment accusations against Arnold came years before Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men in Hollywood were called out in the #MeToo movement. Multiple women accused him of sexually harassment during his 2003 run for the California governor’s seat.

Schwarzenegger spoke to Men’s Health about whether, if he could go back in time, he would want to treat the women in his life differently. “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 apologise," he said.

"When I became Governor [of California], I wanted to make sure that no one, including me, ever makes this mistake. That's why we took sexual harassment courses, to have a clear understanding, from a legal point of view and also from a regular-behaviour point of view, of what is accepted and what is not,” the actor added.

Schwarzenegger divorced wife Maria Shriver in 2011 after he admitted to fathering a child with the family housekeeper 14 years earlier.