On May 6, 1961 he was born in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the last Hollywood icons with classical star status: George Clooney.
Today complies 64 yearsand his life, beyond glamor and red carpets, is woven of episodes that include unbearable physical pain, a childhood under reflectors, deep emotional conflicts and an unexpected vital turn towards family life.
In 2005, while filming a fighting scene for the movie SyrianClooney suffered a drop From a chair that caused a very serious injury in the backbone.
As detailed IMDBthe fall produced a leak of cerebrospinal fluid through the nose, and the headaches he experienced later were very intense.
“I was lying on a hospital bed with an intravenous route on my arm, without being able to move, With these headaches where you feel that you are having a stroke ”Clooney himself told an interview with Rolling Stone In 2011.
In that same interview, confessed to having considered taking his life: “For a brief period of three weeks, I started thinking: ‘I could have to do something drastic about this.’ You think about not leaving a disaster, so you go to the garage, you go up to the car, you start the engine … it seemed the cleaner shape, but I never thought I would reach that point. I was trying to find how to survive”
In 2014, AND! news He revealed that Clooney was treated at the University of Duke and a Hospital in Germany to try to relieve persistent pain derived from that injury.
But the story did not end there: in 2020, Express UK, He informed that Clooney underwent a new neck surgery after a motorcycle accident that occurred in 2018. During that procedure, doctors discovered that he also suffered arthritiswhich further aggravated his situation.
Long before conquering Hollywood, Clooney had to face a humiliating and painful experience: at age 15 he suffered a Bell paralysis, a form of Paralisis Temporal Facial.
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live!he recalled that stage with his characteristic humor, but also with sincerity: “I want to point out something. At that time I had Bell paralysis and half of my face was paralyzed”he told Kimmel as they commented on a photo of his adolescence.
In an interview with Rolling Stonehe deepened the emotional impact that this condition had, which began when “The milk began to get out of the Boca commissure” during a family meal.
His schoolmates nicknamed him “Cloon-dog” for the asymmetry of his face. “It was the first year of high school. A bad time to have half of the paralyzed face “, He added.
For decades, Clooney was considered the “Last gold single“From Hollywood. But even when the media presented it that way, he had already been married: between 1989 and 1993, with the actress Balsam waist.
“I married in 1989. It wasn’t very good at that. They summoned me saying that I will never get married just after divorcing myself and I have never spoken of it since then, ”he had told Esquire In 2014.
In the 90s and 2000s, he maintained relations with Kelly Preston, Krista Allen, Elisabetta Canalis, Lisa Snowdon and Stacy Keibler, but always denied any intention to form a family.
According to HuffPostMichelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman bet ten thousand dollars that he would have children before 40. Clooney returned their checks when that did not happen and folded the bet: he would not have children before 50.
However, everything changed when he met Amal Almuddinhuman Rights Lawyer. “I received a call from my agent who said ‘I met a woman who will go home, with whom you are going to get married,” he said in My Next Guest Needs No IntroductionDavid Letterman’s program in Netflix.
They married in 2014 and in 2017 they were parents of She and Alexanderthe twins who broke their oath of non -paternity.
Clooney grew up in Ohio, within a very visible family. His father, the news presenter, Nick ClooneyIt was a local television figure, which made George and his sister Adelia into recognized characters.
“My sister and I never enjoy those appearances. You had to be ‘on’, it was time for the show. With seven years, you had to get on stage and say something ”, counted a Rolling Stone.
From an early age, George participated with his mother in commercials in his father’s program. The family worked as a kind of vaodevil act. “We got out of the car and it was ‘Hey, Hey!’ All smiles. recalled.
Local fame was a constant pressure. “If I scored 15 points in a basketball match, the newspaper said: ‘Nick Clooney’s son scored 15 points.’ It was uncomfortable”he declared.
In the 90sClooney crossed what he called his “Fury stage”. In Rolling Stone He spoke without filter: sick jealousy, traffic fights, breakage of golf sticks, insults to strangers and hate letters. “I have not been so for many years, but there was a period. I wish I knew where all that came from“.
Beyond cinema, Clooney has maintained a high profile in social and political issues. According to Rolling Stonehe is known for his work in Darfur, A region of Southeast Asia, and for supporting causes of human rights. “It is the same type you see in the movies, which you read in the magazines, the one that is going to Darfur”Said the magazine, describing his public coherence.
