In response to Lucie Arnaz, daughter of I Love Lucy costars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, it wasn’t affairs that ended her well-known dad and mom’ marriage, although she mentioned dad Desi was untrue.
“Individuals say he had affairs,” Lucie mentioned in a CBS Information Sunday Morning interview that aired on June 15. “He by no means had an affair. He didn’t even know these dames’ names. , they had been hookers.”
However Desi’s infidelity wasn’t for an absence of affection for Ball or their two youngsters, Lucie and her brother, Desi Arnaz Jr. “He liked my mom, he liked his household,” Lucie mentioned. “It was a really distinctive, bizarre downside to have. And I believe that’s the rationale she stayed with him so lengthy, is that she understood it. I don’t assume I might do what she did. … However in some way, on the time, with what they’d, with what they wanted from one another, they caught it out so long as they may.”
In 1960, Desi and Ball sat with Lucie, then 8, and Desi Jr., then 7, on the household’s home in Palm Springs, California, to inform them they had been separating.
“They mentioned that, ‘We love one another, however the being-husband-and-wife half is damaged, and we are able to’t dwell collectively anymore,’” recalled Lucie, pictured under. “And I keep in mind that my brother mentioned, ‘But when it’s damaged, can’t you simply repair it? Can’t you set stuff on it and repair it?’ They usually mentioned, ‘I don’t assume so.’ The reality of it’s … they had been happier after they received divorced. The screaming and the arguing and all that stuff stopped.”
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Amid the divorce, Lucie felt “very protecting” of her dad, saying he “was the one which received ousted” and “received a whole lot of the blame.”
Desi and Ball remained shut after the break up and till his 1986 demise from lung most cancers. Lucie was there for the final time her dad and mom spoke, two days earlier than his demise, on what would have been their forty sixth wedding ceremony anniversary.
“He was very, very sick. And I mentioned, ‘I’m going to place him on the cellphone now, so say what you need to say.’ And I simply held the cellphone to his ear, And all I might hear her saying was, ‘I really like you.’ Like, 5 instances in a row. And he listened, and he mentioned, ‘I really like you, too, honey.’ After which he mentioned, ‘Good luck together with your exhibits.’”