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Ball of Lucille And Desi Arnaz played a fictitious couple on I love Lucy , in which the most serious problems had to do with the fictitious Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz) being bored by the idiotic antics of his wife Lucy (ball). But, in real life, television stars have dealt with much more complicated marital problems. According to a new book, Ball was deeply injured by Arnaz frequently deceiving her and his ideas that a man had the right to do outside his marriage.

Sarah Royal , the author of A.K.A Lucy: The dynamic and determined life of Lucille Ball , spoke to Fox News Digital of the legendary showbiz couple, including how The feminization of Arnaz and the ambition of Ball ended their relationship.

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Ball and Arnaz met for the first time on the 1940 film Too many girls . A few months later, they ended the relations in which they were when they met and married. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"Lucy was the head to level, and Desi was the romantic," Royal told Fox News Digital. "[But] there was this electrical outlet and this link between the two where [they] were simply madly in love immediately." She added: "What surprised me about them was that they had this hot hot romance, this sexual chemistry. But there was also a lot of discussions and a lot of grief."

Ball and Arnaz's relationship was not only romantic but also professional and artistic. From 1951, they began to co-reverse and produce I love Lucy Through their company Desilu Productions.

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According to A.K.A. Lucy , at the start of their wedding ball and Arnaz both had "fierce feelings of jealousy" and feared that the other cheating when they were separated. In 1944, Ball asked for divorce, but quickly changed heart. Work together on I love Lucy was a way for them to be more with each other, and they finally welcomed the children - their daughter, Lucie Arnaz , was born in 1951 and their son, Desi Arnaz Jr. , in 1953.

However, Arnaz cheated, according to Royal. "On his credit, Desi admitted that he had been raised by observing and believing in a double standard where women had to remain sexually faithful, but men were free to wander," said the book.

"Everyone is like," Desi was a womanizer and ruined everything. "That's part of history," said Royal. "He had a certain way of thinking of sexual getaways outside his marriage which had nothing to do with the dedication and the emotional loyalty he had towards his wife. Lucy felt differently. She felt that these sexual getaways in Apart from marriage was not part of what she wanted from a husband ... She was very badly injured, and Desi was very badly injured. "

On the other side of the equation, according to Royal, Arnaz was embarrassed by the amount of energy ball put in work.

"There was a lot of qualities about him that were also difficult to understand," said Royal. "At this stage of their success, he said," Can we stop and simply enjoy the family we have created and enjoy our success? "And she wanted to continue. I think it was another point of pain too ... I think it was surprising for me how powerful they were, even if there was so different and there were so much Red flags ... Finally, they came to this conclusion where the pressure was too much. "

In 1960, Ball and Arnaz divorced after 20 years of marriage.

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Scotty Bowers was a return escort and a pimps for many big names in Hollywood. His story was documented in his 2012 book Full service: my adventures in Hollywood and the secret sex life And in the 2017 documentary Scotty and the secret story of Hollywood . In an interview with The Daily Beast in 2012, Bowers said he created Arnaz With two or three women per week.

"Her guy was a beautiful girl who was a little secular," he said. Bowers, who died in 2019 at the age of 96, said that the ball had once confronted her during a party on the creation of her husband with women. He said she had shouted: "How dare you pimp for Desi!"

Arnaz himself admitted to having cheated the ball in his 1977 Memoirs, A book , but he said that she had also cheated on him.

Despite the problems of their marriage, their divorce and the fact that they both remarried, Arnaz and Ball remained friends throughout their lives.

"At first there was a lot of sorrow and a lot of rockur," Royal told Fox News Digital. "But they shared children. They created this incredible television studio and this machine together ... and they had this chemistry that no one else had ... The pain softens and, in many ways , they had a more comfortable relationship. They were in fact in everyone's life. "

In an interview Closer In 2020, Lucie shared that her parents' divorce It was "the best thing that happened to them".

"They had a great Divorce, "she said." They had a very successful divorce. It was fantastic. If their parents cannot get along and it happens, then children should be so lucky to have a divorce like my mother and my father, because they were nice, they never said bad words One of each other in front of their children and they remain friends until the day of their death. ""

Arnaz died for the first time at the age of 69 in 1986. Ball died three years later in 1989 at 77.

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