Love at first sight took place in 2013, in a villa on the shores of Lake Como.
"It's funny, she came to visit me at the house in Como with a friend of hers and I immediately thought...", began George Clooney leaving a revealing suspense.
The actor, director and philanthropist gave himself up to his friend's microphone on the Drew Barrymore
Show
on October 18.
And delivered a founding anecdote about his meeting with the Lebanese-British lawyer, Amal Alamuddin.
In video, the trailer for
Ticket to Paradise
with George Clooney and Julia Roberts
Presage
“The funny thing is that Bryan Lourd, my agent, called me.
He had just met Amal at another event and she said to him: "Yes, I am going to Como with one of my friends", and he called me to say: "There is a girl coming to your house and that you are going to marry her."
Hollywood's most coveted ex-bachelor didn't believe it for a second at first.
"You are stupid.
You know very well that it will not happen, ”he replied.
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Love letters on the pillow
Except that, from their first meeting, they spent the whole night talking.
A romance with the air of yesteryear quickly takes shape.
The Money Monster
(2016) actor
has indeed started writing letters to his beloved.
"With paper and a pen?!", wondered Drew Barrymore.
Yes, and they would continue to write about it even today.
Letters they leave on the pillowcase.
Since the start of the promotion for his new film, the actor has repeatedly spoken about his private life, and has never ceased to proclaim loud and clear his love for the charismatic lawyer.
“Everything about my wife is kind of magical, and I think everyone realized that by seeing her, hearing her and hearing what she is fighting for.
There is no bad side to her!”, he enthused at the microphone of “Entertainment Tonight” on September 24.
The couple, who sealed their union in a grand Venetian wedding in 2014, have just celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary.
They are parents to 5-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, of whom George Clooney is at least as proud.
