The Sweet Way Lucille Ball Went Above and Beyond To Support Her Children - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

According to her daughter, Lucille Ball wasn’t home a lot when she and her younger brother were growing up.

wanted to pursue, Ball was their biggest cheerleader.

In an interview Ball did with The Washington Star in 1980, she spoke about having children “late in life.” There was a time when she thought she wasn’t going to be able to have children biologically at all.

“I’d lost two and I thought, my God, I’ll be too old to have children,” she said.

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Like she thought I had a passion for putting on little plays, that’s why she built a little stage and gave me the light,” said Lucie.