The actor was labeled as Hollywood's unrepentant bachelor, until a friend showed up at his house with lawyer and activist Amal Alamuddin.
Many singles of a certain age say that it can be difficult to meet new and interesting people. The love story of actor George Clooney does not suggest that this was the case for him, but in the end, the convinced Hollywood bachelor met the one who is now his wife without even leaving his house.
This is how the 56-year-old actor explained it in an appearance on a program hosted by the famous David Letterman that premieres on Netflix on February 9 and is titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (My next guest needs no introduction) .
“I didn't leave the house”, that's how clearly Clooney explains to Letterman. Although, of course, the phrase has a trick: he didn't need to get out of it because she visited him at home. It was the month of July 2013, the interpreter was at his house on Lake Como (Italy), where his parents were also spending a few days, and a mutual friend called him saying that he was passing through the area on his way to Cannes and that He was accompanied by a friend. “Should I stop by to see you and can I bring my friend?” he asked her. And he only had to answer: “Of course!”.
George Clooney had no information about Amal Alamuddin, a 39-year-old human rights lawyer, but her agent did know her, who soon called him and said: “I met this woman who is going to come to your house, with whom you're getting married'. And it really happened that way, ”explains the actor during the interview.
The attraction existed from the first moment. The actor's father has previously stated that he saw how the face of his son was changing throughout the first evening in which he met the one who is now his wife. But Clooney explains that not everything was immediate. "We stayed up all night talking. And I got her email address because she was going to send me some pictures of my parents. We started writing to each other. I didn't know if she wanted to go out with me, I just thought we were friends." weeks of conversations mostly about "what was going on in each other's lives. Until after a while it became clear that we were more than just friends."
They say the rest is history. In October 2013, George invited Amal to visit him in London, where she was working. And it was “a good first date”, in the words of the actor.
That night he not only got to know his future partner better, but he was also able to see how he could cope with the pressure of the press in the future. "We went to dinner," Clooney explained in an interview. "It was Amal who chose the place, one of those incredibly hip and chic places. And when we came out, there were 50 paparazzi, but she handled it like a champ."
According to Clooney, from this good first date, everything happened very quickly. On April 28, 2014, he was so clear that he planned a big night in which he would prepare a romantic dinner for his partner, because the actor insists on clarifying that he is the family cook. “Amal makes reservations; I prepared pasta in some way that I don't remember too impressive, ”she details.
And after dinner, over champagne, George asked Amal to get a lighter out of a drawer to light a candle, and when she handed it to him, he took out a ring. "I got down on my knees and did all the things you're supposed to do," Clooney explained. "I had a playlist of my songs from Rosemary [his late aunt, who was a singer], and I was waiting for a certain song: 'Why shouldn't I? / Why shouldn't I take a chance when romance passes? / Why shouldn't I know about love?" It's a really good song about why I can't be in love."
“She said 'God!', and she kept going 'Oh my God!', looking at the ring. I was on my knees for 20 minutes waiting for her to say yes because she was in shock."
The rest is indeed history. One that had a four-day wedding in Venice and a special brooch on June 6, 2017, when the couple's twins, Ella and Alexander, were born. A moment that Clooney remembers as "wild". "It's all conceptual until that moment where you go from 'yeah, we're going to be parents,' to oh my gosh, I'm a dad!"
