Ball agreed on one condition: she wanted Arnaz to play the role of her husband.
Through some TV-related ups and downs, “I Love Lucy” was born.
News ofBall and Arnaz’s splitwas heartbreaking to fans who had fallen in love with them as a couple.
But Arnaz left Ball little choice in the matter.
“During the summer of 1944, Desi stopped coming home.
In 2022, his and Lucile Ball’s daughterLucie ArnaztoldPeoplemagazine about the last conversation that her parents had.
“I could hear her say, ‘I love you.’
She said it five times in a row.
And he was nodding and saying, ‘I love you too, honey.’
He died in my arms.
At the time of Arnaz’s death, Ball was married to her second husband, Gary Morton.
The two wed in 1961 and remained together until Ball’s death in 1989.
In a 2018 article published byCloser Weekly, love letters that the two had exchanged were revealed.
Friends of the late actor told the outlet that Morton was a great guy who made Ball laugh.
Meanwhile, Arnaz also found love again.
In 2016, Lucie Arnaz weighed in on her mother’s tragic death.
I never felt like I went to the funeral of my mother, you know what I mean?
Or that my mother died and people came and took care of us.
It’s like we really had to take care of the world.
And we did,” she told theTelevision Academy Foundation.
