Arnaz’s Cheating Made Things Awkward On Set
Ball once received an advanced copy of Confidential magazine, which ran a story on Arnaz’s cheating habits. She read the article in front of everyone on set. Charlie Pomerantz, who played Hy Averback in the episode “The Hedda Hopper Story,” remembered the event. “Everybody was frozen on the set,” Pomerantz told People. “[Lucille] finally came out [of her dressing room], tossed the magazine to Desi and said, ‘Oh, hell, I could tell them worse than that.’”