
‘I Love Lucy’ star Desi Arnaz got sober a year before his death, daughter says: ‘I was very proud of him’
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Desi Arnaz's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, opened up about her famous parents in the upcoming documentary for Amazon Prime Video titled “Lucy and Desi.”
Arnaz famously starred as Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo alongside his wife Lucille Ball in the beloved ‘50s sitcom "I Love Lucy." According to the documentary, Arnaz’s drinking sometimes got in the way of their marriage. The couple divorced in 1960.
"He resisted going into AA or any program for a long, long time," Lucie, 70, told People magazine on Thursday. "We don’t air our dirty laundry in front of other people; he hated that part. But he finally did after his [second] wife Edy died. He was just so upset that my brother convinced him… ‘Come on, dad. You can do this.’ And he did it. He stopped drinking."