Desi, you bought some ‘splainin’ to do.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s solely daughter, Lucie Arnaz, lately opened up concerning the alleged affairs her father had whereas nonetheless married to the “I Love Lucy” starlet.
However Lucie wouldn’t take into account her well-known dad’s suspected infidelities “affairs” as a result of he allegedly solely cheated on Ball with “hookers” whose names “he didnt even know.”
“People say he had affairs,” Lucie, 73, instructed CBS Sunday Morning in a brand new interview. “He never had an affair.”
“He didn’t even know these dames’ names, you know?” she added. “They were hookers.”
Though Lucie admitted that her father doubtless cheated on her Hollywood icon mother, she additionally insisted that Desi “loved” Ball and that Ball “understood” that.
“He loved my mother. He loved his family. It was a very unique, weird problem to have, and I think that’s the reason she stayed with him so long, is that she understood it,” she continued. “I don’t think I could do what she did.”
“But somehow at the time, with what they had, with what they needed from each other, they stuck it out as long as they could,” Lucie added.
The “I Love Lucy” stars married in November 1940 and, 11 years later, launched audiences throughout the nation to the present that some say “invented” the trendy sitcom.
Desi, who was a profitable musician and bandleader earlier than taking part in Ricky Ricardo in “I Love Lucy,” and Ball, who was an aspiring actress earlier than she exploded in recognition as Lucy Ricardo on the present, welcomed Lucie simply six weeks after they filmed the primary episode.
Though Ball reportedly needed to call her daughter Susan, Desi allegedly went behind his spouse’s again and adjusted it to Lucie on the beginning certificates.
The couple later welcomed a son, Desi Arnaz Jr., in 1953.
However Ball in the end filed for divorce from Desi in March 1960 after 20 tumultuous years of marriage.
“It got so bad that I thought it would be better for us not to be together,” the actress and comic reportedly instructed the court docket throughout her and Desi’s divorce proceedings.
“They were just going through a routine for the children,” biographer Bart Andrews later instructed Individuals in 1991. “She told me that for the last five years of their marriage, it was ‘just booze and broads.’”
The rise and fall of the couple’s relationship was depicted within the 2021 biopic “Being the Ricardos” – which Lucie lately known as “so wrong” and “such a crock of poop.”
In the meantime, Lucie can nonetheless bear in mind precisely the place she and her little brother have been after they discovered that their mother and father have been splitting up.
“We were at their house in Palm Springs,” she instructed CBS Sunday Morning. “And they said that, ‘We love each other, but the being-husband-and-wife part is broken. And we can’t live together anymore.’”
“And I remember that my brother said, ‘But if it’s broken, can’t you just fix it? Can’t you put stuff on it and fix it?’” Lucie added. “And they said, ‘I don’t think so.’”
Lucie additionally admitted that her mother and father have been “happier” after their break up.
“The truth of it is, they were happier after they got divorced,” she admitted. “The screaming and the arguing and all that stuff stopped.”
Each stars remarried following their 1960 divorce.
Desi tied the knot with household buddy Edith Mack Hirschin in 1963, they usually remained married till her passing in 1985. He later died from lung most cancers in December 1986 on the age of 69.
As for Ball, she married comic Gary Morton in 1962. They remained married till Ball tragically handed away following a ruptured aortic aneurysm in April 1989. She was 77.
