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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Daughter Speaks Out About Dad's Alleged Affairs in Rare Interview
Lucie Arnaz shed new light on the moment she learned of her parents Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's divorce in a new interview Ball's friends previously mentioned Arnaz's infidelity in a 1991 PEOPLE cover story Desi died in 1986, while Ball died in 1989Lucie Arnaz got candid about her parents Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's early Hollywood marriage in rare comments made in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, which aired Sunday, June 15. Lucie, 73, said, "People say he had affairs. He never had an affair. He didn't even know these dames' names. They were hookers." CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca chimed in, asking, "They were transactional?" Lucie responded, "Yeah. 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. I don't think I could do what she did." She continued, "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." Lucille and Desi ended their marriage and subsequently their hit television show, I Love Lucy, in 1960. Lucie was 8 years old at the time, and her younger brother Desi Jr. was 7. Lucie then recounted the moment she and her brother learned of their parents' separation. "We were at their house in Palm Springs, and they said that, 'We love each other, but being husband and wife part is broken, and we can't live together anymore.' " The actress recalled her younger brother's reaction to the news. "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?' " "And they said, 'I don't think so.' The truth of it is, Mo, they were happier after they got divorced. The screaming and the arguing and all that stuff stopped," Lucie admitted. She then revealed that as a child, she felt the need to protect her famous father's image. "I was very protective of my dad, believe it or not. I felt really sorry for my dad. I felt like he was the one that got ousted." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. In a 1991 PEOPLE cover story on the late couple, the late Ball's friend Lillian Briggs Winograd recalled spending time with Ball when Arnaz died in 1986 at 69. She appeared to echo Lucie's recent comments, and that in spite of Arnaz's infidelity, Ball still felt love for him years after their divorce. "At the end, we drove down to Del Mar, where she went to see Desi a few days before he died [of lung cancer on Dec. 2, 1986]. She was very, very shook-up. She left that place and broke down and said, 'That was the one love…' " Ball died three years later in 1989. She was 77. Bob Weiskopf, a longtime writer for the couple, told PEOPLE in 1991, "Basically, Desi's attitude was, 'What the hell's the matter? I love her. When I go out with women, they're usually hookers. Those don't count.' " Read the original article on People
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11-06-2025
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I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball found out she was pregnant from a radio broadcast
Lucille Ball found out she was pregnant from a radio broadcast. The late comedienne - who was mother to Lucie, 73, and Desi Jr, 72, with husband Desi Arnaz - had some tests done shortly before learning she was expecting her eldest, but a new biography has alleged that a broadcaster learned of the news first after being "tipped off" by the medical lab. In Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, Todd S. Purdum writes: "In June 1950, during the New York run of their vaudeville show, Lucy was relaxing in her dressing room between shows listening to Walter Winchell's radio broadcast when she heard him announce she was 'infanticipating,' the columnist's lingo for 'pregnant.' He'd been tipped off by a medical lab informant before the Arnazes themselves had learned the news." The tome also features interviews with the I Love Lucy star's children, and Lucie recalled just how different her parents were from one another. She said: "He would get really angry and blow his stack, and be loud, but then he'd be done and it would be like it never happened. "[My mom] would get personally offended by childhood behavior or what you said, because you should have known not to say that somehow, even though no one's taught you what to say. "And she would emotionally separate from you for however long she wanted to. And it would be sometimes days, sometimes weeks." Lucille and Desi - who divorced in 1960 after 20 years of marriage - were known to audiences as a a Hollywood power couple in their heyday but Desi Jr insisted that their fame "wasn't good for anyone" in the family. He said: "It wasn't good for anyone. "And we'll always remember when they sat us down and said, 'Look, you know, things aren't working.' I mean, I remember word for word."
