Arnold Co-star Jamie Lee Curtis: 1970's Stories Not Relevant

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is blasting the media for recycling old stories about Arnold Schwarzenegger's past as he vies to become governor of California.

The press has widely covered a 1977 Schwarzenegger interview with soft-porn magazine Oui, where he spoke about sex parties, smoking drugs and other questionable activities.

But Curtis, Schwarzenegger's co-star in the 1994 flick "True Lies," tells the World Entertainment News Network that the body builder-turned-gubernatorial hopeful's youthful indiscretions aren't relavant to the question of whether he can govern California.

"I'm gonna say three little words: legitimate public concern," Curtis tells WENN. "That to me is where you make the criteria of what's important to talk about with a politician and what's not."

The respected actress said that what counts is Schwarzernegger's conduct today, not what he did in the 1970s.

"I think to dredge up something when he was 25 or 19 or whatever, to me that's not important. What's important are his views today. That to me is why you're gonna vote for him - not because he had relations with women when he was a young, single man."

She praised Schwarzenegger as "a family member, as a father, as a husband," adding, "I know who he is as a man now, and he's an honorable great, great man."

Curtis also reminds that many prominent people have skeletons in their closets, saying, "I did things when I was a single woman that are different than I would now."

The "Freaky Friday" star predicts that Californians will reject the politics of personal destruction currently being practiced by Arnold's opponents.

"I think people are gonna look at him as the epitome of the American dream, and if he can do it, they can do it. Who better to lead them in that possibility that Arnold Schwarzenegger?"

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