They were thefirst couple of televisionin every way.
But life off the set for this pair was not what you saw on screen.
It all seemed like a Hollywood fairy tale, but Ball and Arnaz’s marriage was anything but.
“There were never any knock-down-drag-out fights around the set.
“He was too well-mannered.
“The magazine Confidential came out with a story saying Desi was a womanizer.
“It was during a rehearsal day, and she went into her dressing room.
Everybody was frozen on the set.
Daughter Lucie Arnaz spoke of her parents' marriage and their messy divorce toCloser Weeklyin 2018.
“They were fighting all the time when we were growing up.
There was a lot of anger and screaming,” she told the outlet.
And then there was the alcoholism.
I had preferred those things had never been there.
Despite their divorce, the pair remained friends until their deaths but also remarried.
“I put the phone up to Dad’s ear in the bed,” Lucie said.
“I said, ‘It’s the redhead.’
He just listened and I heard what he said.
She just said the same thing over and over again …
It was ‘I love you.
Desi, I love you.’
