Lucille Ball and Desi Arnazs daughter opens up about her famous dads alleged affairs: They were hookers

Desi, you got some ‘splainin’ to do.Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s only daughter, Lucie Arnaz, recently opened up about the alleged affairs her father had while still married to the “I Love Lucy” starlet.But Lucie wouldn’t consider her famous dad’s suspected infidelities “affairs” because he allegedly only cheated on Ball with “hookers” whose names “he didnt even know.”“People say he had affairs,” Lucie, 73, told CBS Sunday Morning in a new interview.“He never had an affair.”“He didn’t even know these dames’ names, you know?” she added.

“They were hookers.”Even though Lucie admitted that her father likely cheated on her Hollywood icon mom, she also 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, introduced audiences across the country to the show that some say “invented” the modern sitcom.Desi, who was a successful musician and bandleader before playing Ricky Ricardo in “I Love Lucy,” and Ball, who was an aspiring actress before she exploded in popularity as Lucy Ricardo on the show, welcomed Lucie just six weeks after they filmed the first episode.Although Ball reportedly wanted to name her daughter Susan, Desi allegedly went behind his wife’s back and changed it to Lucie on the birth certificate.The couple later welcomed a son, Desi Arnaz Jr., in 1953.But Ball ultimately 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 a...