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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Daughter Says Her Parents' Divorce Was 'Horrible'
Nearly 60 years following their split, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s daughter is opening up about her parents’ contentious marriage — and “horrible” divorce.
“They were fighting all the time when we were growing up,” Lucie Arnaz, 67, toldCloser Weekly in a new interview.
“There was a lot of anger and screaming,” she admitted.
In , Ball and Desi met on the RKO set of a picture called Too Many Girls. Ball was a year-old contract player with a string of forgettable films, and Desi, at 23, a dashing, Cuban-born nightclub bandleader. They married six months later.
While she tended a soaring Hollywood career, he toured the country with his rumba band. In time, as depicted in CBS’s TV movie Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, their relationship began to fray with the strain of separation.
By , Ball was starring on radio with actor Richard Denning in the popular CBS show My Favorite Husband. When the network launched a version of the show for the new medium of television, she insisted that Desi be cast as her spouse. The formula was magic.
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In its six-year run, I Love Lucy — making perfect use of Ball’s vibrant talent and Desi’s behind-the-scenes business savvy — would become the most successful comedy series on TV and earn millions for the couple’s production company, Desilu. Each week, 40 million viewers watched the onscreen antics of the Ricardo family.
“All their hopes, plans and dreams for a happy future were wrapped up in that TV sitcom,” Lucie wrote in her introduction to the book I Love Lucy.
But off-screen, the Arnaz marriage, which produced two children — daughter Lucie and son Desi Jr. (Jan. 19, ) — before ending in a divorce, was a volatile interplay of alcoholism and infidelity.
“Their divorce was horrible. And then there was the alcoholism,” Lucie told C Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s legacy lives on through their children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., and their grandchildren, Julia, Haley, Simon, Joseph and Kate. The comedic duo’s journey to parenthood began in with the birth of Lucie Désirée Arnaz. “They were dying to have a family as soon as they got married,” Lucie told The Desert Sun in of her parents, who wed on Nov. 30, However, it didn’t happen right away. In an interview with The Washington Star in , Ball shared that she had two miscarriages while trying to get pregnant during the first decade of their marriage. “For me, the birth of a child, it was a miracle,” she told the newspaper about welcoming her firstborn. "I couldn’t believe it.” Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Relationship in Photos The pair's second child, Desiderio “Desi” Alberto Arnaz Jr., arrived 18 months in , to much public fanfare. According to Entertainment Weekly, Ball was scheduled for a c-section and welcomed her son the same night that her character, Lucy Ricardo, gave birth to her fictional son, Little Ricky. For all of the actors' success, their family mattered most. “Just having a career, that would be very boring,” Ball told The Washington Star. “The best part of my life is having children. They keep you young.” Here's everything to know about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., and grandchildren: Julia, Haley, Simon, Joseph and Kate. Ball and Arnaz welcomed their first child, daughter Lucie Désirée Arnaz, on July 17, The newborn arrived six weeks before Ball went to work on I Love Lucy. “My mom was a working mom,” Lucie said. "[My parents] were very busy. I think from probably [from the] age of birth up through 7, they weren’t home a lot.” Ultimately, Ball and Arnaz divorced in , and though it was difficult in the beginning, t The line between truth and fiction was often blurred on the iconic s sitcom I Love Lucy. On the show, married couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz played a pair of married characters, and in one particularly memorable episode, Lucy even “gave birth” shortly before giving birth in real life. Their real children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., grew up in the spotlight — and sometimes onscreen, too. Ball and Arnaz’s relationship is having a major cultural moment. It was dramatized in the Aaron Sorkin film Being the Ricardos, which takes place behind the scenes of I Love Lucy during one particularly eventful week, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. And now, this week, a new documentary about the coupe, directed by Amy Poehler, Lucy and Desi, is being released on Amazon. The Arnaz children both appear in Poehler’s documentary and serve as executive producers on Being the Ricardos. Lucie struck up a friendship with Nicole Kidman, who plays Ball in the film, and told the Los Angeles Timesin an interview, “To see someone play Lucille Ball for real and not as a joke — that was unique. Not sending her up like some sort of impersonator. It was a little spooky and kind of wonderful. Same thing with Javier [Bardem] I’d look at him and think, ‘You’re my dad. And wait, I’m older than you are. What?’ It was kind of wonderful to go back in time.” As adults, Lucie and Desi Jr. have balanced their own careers in the performing arts with efforts to preserve their parents’ legacy. Below, find out what happened to Lucie and Desi Arnaz Jr., and where they are now. Lucie Arnaz was a natural performer from a young age. As a child, she put on makeshift plays at home, and Lucille Ball even had a stage built for her to perform on in the family’s garage. After an early stint on the short-lived sitcom Here’s Lucy, in which she starred alongside her mother and brother, Lucie d American actor and musician (born ) Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born January 19, ), better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired actor and musician. He is the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Arnaz was born on January 19, , at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. His older sister is actress Lucie Arnaz, who was born in His birth was one of the most publicized in television history. His parents were the stars of the television sitcomI Love Lucy, and Ball's pregnancy was part of the story line, which was considered daring in The same day Ball gave birth to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Ricardo gave birth to "Little Ricky". As a testament to how interested the American public was in Lucy's TV baby, Arnaz appeared on the cover of the first issue of TV Guide with the headline "Lucy's $50,, baby", ($,, in dollars) because revenue from advertising tie-ins was expected to top that amount. Actor Richard Keith (a.k.a. Keith Thibodeaux) later portrayed "Little Ricky" in the TV series; Keith spent much time with Lucie and Desi Jr. in childhood and became close friends with the family, teaching Desi Jr. how to play drums. Arnaz attended University High School in West Los Angeles. At age 12, Arnaz was a drummer with Dino, Desi & Billy. The others were Dean Paul Martin (son of Dean Martin) and Billy Hinsche. The band scored two hit singles with "I'm a Fool" and "Not the Lovin' Kind" in With Billy's passing in , Desi is the sole surviving member of the trio. From to , Desi Arnaz and his sister Lucie co-starred opposite their mother in Here's Lucy as her children. In , he had a guest-starring role as Jerry and Suzie's drum-playing friend Tommy in the episode, "The Hombre Who Came to Dinner: Part 2", from the show The Mothers-in-Law, executive-produced and directed by his father. In , he appeared on The Brady Bunch epis All About Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Children and Grandchildren
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