"I'd never been in the position where someone else's life was infinitely more important to me than my own," George Clooney confessed.
George Clooney will always be head over heels in love with his wife, Amal. The Gravity star separated from his first wife Talia Balsam in 1993 and met Amal Alamuddin in Italy through a friend back in 2013. The beautiful couple got hitched in an intimate ceremony that took place at the Aman Canal Grande luxury resort in Venice on Sept. 27, 2014. Ever since then, they worked together to establish the Clooney Foundation for Justice in 2016 and proceeded to make a family of their own when Amal gave birth to their twins Alexander and Ella in London, per Bustle.
Before he met Amal the actor lived with chronic pain for years after a harrowing accident. It was so painful he did not want to continue. He told The Guardian in 2005, "There was this scene where I was taped to a chair and getting beaten up. The chair was kicked over and I hit my head. I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine that holds in the spinal fluid. But it's not my back; it's my brain. I basically bruised my brain. It's bouncing around my head because it's not supported by the spinal fluid," the former ER star revealed. Constant pain and splitting headaches plagued his life at the time. "Before the surgery, it was the most unbearable pain I've ever been through, literally where you'd go, 'well, you'll have to kill yourself at some point, you can't live like this,'" explained the Batman & Robin star. Eventually, he was able to recover from one of the most difficult periods of his life.
For years he thought he was content with being single and never dreamed of settling down with a wife and children until Amal came along. He previously felt his life was full, thanks to work and his amazing friends. "I didn't know how un-full it was until I met Amal. And then everything changed. And I was like, 'Oh, actually, this has been a huge empty space,'" noted Clooney to GQ in 2020. Marriage changed him “because I'd never been in the position where someone else's life was infinitely more important to me than my own. You know? And then tack on two more individuals, who are small and have to be fed.”
Clooney loves taking care of his family now and often cooks for them. When they celebrated their second wedding anniversary on September 27 in 2016 the actor told E!Online, “It’s very big news. Very, very big celebration—fireworks,” he first joked before admitting, “Okay, I made dinner.” He even quipped that he has fooled Amal into liking his meals. “I don’t think she’s ever quite impressed with my cooking,” he said. “If I slap something together—spaghetti and meatballs—she doesn’t know that it comes in a jar, so I can just fool her with that one.”
References:
https://www.gq.com/story/george-clooney-icon-of-the-year-2020
https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/george-clooney-amal-alamuddin-relationship-timeline
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