GEORGE CLOONEY told celebrity gossip websites he used to think of killing himself because he couldn’t take the pain.
Did he mean the pain of his divorce from first (and only wife) Talia Balsam, or the pain of having to suffer through his countless girlfriends trying to snare him into marriage?
Neither it appears. Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor once suffered from pain so severe he thought of ending his life just to make it stop…
Apparently, the 50-year-old Oscar winner sustained a horrific spinal injury during the filming of “Syriana” in 2005, the very film that netted him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
George was bedridden for a long time, suffering from severe headaches while his spinal fluid leaked from his nose on a regular basis.
“I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you’re having a stroke, and for a shirt three-week period, I started to think, ‘I may have to do something drastic about this’.”
George recalls.
“I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live,’ “
But thankfully, Clooney‘s self-preservation instinct remained pretty strong. The same instinct that’s warned him to flee from matrimony-hungry hopefuls kicked in at that moment of seemingly unending pain and hopelessness until…
“See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive.”
The only damage he ended up doing to himself was drinking heavily to numb the pain until corrective surgery helped him recover from his ordeal.
Let this be a lesson to all you girls: George Clooney survived Talia Balsam. He survived excruciating headaches and spinal goo dripping out his nose. He survived thoughts of suicide. So don’t go around thinking he won’t survive the loss of yourself.
Unless you can do better than all he’s been through…
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Went through the same thing with Wegeners Disease from too much stress from answering phones. But I had been on an exercise bike the previous five years so after six months got a handle on it and gradually got better but it was a two year ordeal of pain.