Lucie Arnaz let two of her kids become homeless

Ya gotta be ready not to spare the rod so ya don't spoil the child....

**takes a long drag on her ciggie**

Lucy is the only one not wearing a hat in the OP. What a rebel!

I love Lucie Arnaz. She's 100% down to earth and doesn't feel the need to advertise it to the world every two seconds, unlike other children of celebrities who shall remain nameless.

Her interviews are great. She's never had any illusions about showbusiness and has gone out of her way to live a very low-key life.

She went through it with her father and her brother and went to meetings with them. She took the approach she had to.

Lucie Arnaz is fabulous. Down-to-earth, talented, smart, witty, a wonderful woman.

She's great on stage and could have been a a huge star, almost like a Liza Minnelli. But Lucie knew what that was like and chose work but with less of a commitment for full-on fame and more emphasis on her family.

[quote]I love Lucie Arnaz. She's 100% down to earth and doesn't feel the need to advertise it to the world every two seconds, unlike other children of celebrities who shall remain nameless.

I got ahead on my TALENT!

My child is TRANS!

I bake my own BANANA BREAD!`

Look at my WRINKLES!

I guess I'm the only one who thinks it's weird she let her kid sleep under a park bench in New Rochelle or wherever they lived, in December. She took a chance, there. Could have gotten him into some kind of rehab, I don't know. It seems weird.

They live in Palm Springs.

If you haven't lived it, you're assuming. I respect her strength.

Did she birth the addicted child or is it one of her step kids?

R6- is Jamie Lee Curtis

R8 Did you read the article? They lived in a suburb of NYC at the time.

No I didn't read the article.

Academy Award Winner Jamie Lee Curtis r11

please post properly and see me in Frekier Friday this weekend!

Lucie Arnaz: My kids were lucky because they had parents who did not kick them out. We just laid down the law and said no. We told them if you’re doing drugs, throwing temper tantrums or doing whatever is not deemed acceptable, you cannot be here. They chose that and it broke my heart.

WW: It must have been scary not knowing where they were?

Lucie Arnaz: We did not have cellphones at the time. We were living in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York with our five children and unless you were involved in sports, there wasn’t a lot to do. My kids were not into sports because they were more creative, which is why they became writers, painters, actors, songwriters and musicians. At the time, my kids were hanging out with people who were not so wonderful because those individuals were doing drugs and getting into trouble, so mine took a left and we had to straighten them out until they made the right choices.

WW: During that rough patch, were your kids considered homeless?

Lucie Arnaz: Just my husband and I knew what was happening. I mean, I went out to look for my son at one point and there were five other kids sleeping under a park bench in the middle of December. We thought he would be out there for two nights and he was out there for weeks. Finally, I got a phone call and I said, “Are you ready to get some help for this?” and when he said he was ready, we went and got him.

WW: Did anything positive come out of the experience?

Lucie Arnaz: It was the best thing that ever happened, because he had to go there to figure out what he was doing and understand everything. Today he is one of the best people on the planet, but it was hard and tough love isn’t easy.

I simply adore Lucie Arnaz. She doesn't seem to have an ounce of ego or pretence. It's been hinted that Lucy Ball wasn't exactly awash in maternal instinct and Desi Arnaz Sr. was a drunken philanderer. So even more reason to be amazed Lucie has always seemed genuine and down-to-earth.

"A drunken philanderer" sounds like something a woman in a Tennessee Williams play would call a guy.

Lucie always said her parents loved her in the only way they knew how to, So while they weren’t parents of the year, at the end of the day she knew that she was loved and cared for.

And she’s adamant in protecting her parents legacy,

I bet Tovah Feldshuh's kids never slept in the park.

R19 Oh, we get it.

Lucie used to live in Cheviot and her eldest son was kicked out of Overland Elementary. What did it was when he broke into a car and used the automatic lighter (remember those) all over the upholstery and nearly caused a fire. I heard that during the Science Fair, he also hit a kid with a sling shot.

Ohio?

that warms my heart that r20 got my joke within a minute

have to love the DL

My aunt and uncle spent countless amounts of money trying to help my cousin get off drugs. They tried it all . He even got shot in the stomach during a drug deal and almost died and went right back to it as soon as he healed. It wasnt until they put their foot down and just let him sleep on the streets like a 'real' druggie that he finally wised up and now has been doing well for a decade . Sometimes tough love is the only thing to get thru to them. Maybe she knew that about her child.

R24 Sure but he also could have died of pneumonia or gotten killed, so it's a risk. Anyway it doesn't sound in this case like they had exhausted all other options.

Makes me wonder what nasty things Robin Strasser told those kids when she babysat while Lucie and Larry dealt with Old Lucy's funeral arrangements.

I bet it was one of the step kids.

I saw her recently on something or other, her hair was long, it looked strange after so many years of seeing her with short hair.

She was just on CBS talking to Mo Rocca. I love her new hair.

[quote] Makes me wonder what nasty things Robin Strasser told those kids when she babysat while Lucie and Larry dealt with Old Lucy's funeral arrangements.

Huh?

I usually like her hair short.

Well not really R3. I like her too but she’s pretty much made a regular living off promotion of her parents in Jamestown.

Do you think her son "sold his holes" for drugs?

Did he swallow? Did he cry during forced anal?

Lucie has pretty much been dragged into projects. I think she’s happy that someone is looking after her parents’ legacies rather than some board who couldn’t care less. Her daughter is next in line and knows pretty much all there is to know about the family. Desi Jr was too much of an addict to oversee things. There was a rumor during the pandemic that he did. Lucie Arnaz called him up to ask if he was dead or not. He did look like shit. Talk about homeless. Desi looks like someone who lives on the street.

I don't know if she's doing it now but she was doing a singing act in PS at one time.

Lucie Arnaz appears periodically at The Purple Room (cabaret venue) in Palm Springs and at various theatres and symphony halls across the country. She's fabulous. Very talented singer and musician. Great stage presence. I wish she had done more Broadway. She's great. I saw in the touring production of 'Seesaw' with Joh Gavin way back when, the Broadway production of 'They're Playing Our Song' and in the revival of 'Pippin.' She always excels.

I have also worked with her in her musical show that she does with symphony orchestras. She a wonderful person, very funny, engaging and professional. Quite beautiful too.

I still think it's unusual that she doesn't resemble wither parent (said this before, but it fascinates me). Maybe she looks like Dede.

*EITHER

As we all know, she and Desi Jr. were both really raised by Mrs. Trumbull.

[quote]Sure but he also could have died of pneumonia

But he didn't, R25.

[quote]or gotten killed

Yet he wasn't, R25.

[quote]Anyway it doesn't sound in this case like they had exhausted all other options.

You weren't there, so you don't know that for a fact, R25.

I refuse to make any opinion about their choices because I wasn't there either, R25.

I do, however have opinions about you, R25.

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I don't know why her kids had drug problems, but the approach that it's all their fault and they just have to go away until they do something about it ignores the fact that there may have been some fault at the parental end.

I love Lucie. She's charming, likeable, down to earth. But she's also a Hollywood kid who grew up rich and still makes a lot of money off her parents, who remain incredibly popular to this day. Yes, she worked, in show business. But she never had to work in McDonald's or wait tables. So she's one to talk about having to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and toughen up.

R41, bullshit. Chris and I worked at the ice cream parlor. I absolutely died.