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Lucille Ball Found Out She Was Pregnant When Her Medical Records Were Leaked During Radio Broadcast

Lucille Ball once found out she was pregnant not from her doctor, but from a radio broadcaster who had been tipped off by a medical lab staffer.

Lucille Ball once learned she was pregnant while listening to a radio broadcast In his new book Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, biographer Todd S. Purdum writes that Ball was on tour with her husband Desi Arnaz in June 1950 when she was listening to the radio in between shows The broadcaster then announced her pregnancy, after being tipped off by a medical lab staffer The author writes that the couple, upon learning the news, then "trimmed the planned length of the tour," though it was in vain — just weeks later, Ball, suffered a miscarriage. "He would get really angry and blow his stack, and be loud, but then he’d be done and it would be like it never happened," Lucie said, adding that Ball, by contrast, "would get personally offended by childhood behavior or what you said, because you should have known not to say that somehow, even though no one’s taught you what to say."

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