“Such a disaster,” he instinctively thought.
Tuesday, October 18, George Clooney spoke at length to the microphone of his friend during the Drew Barrymore
Show
, delivering several anecdotes about his family life.
After recounting his first meeting with his wife, the Lebanese-British lawyer, Amal Alamuddin, the actor spoke about the day when the latter told him that he was going to be a father for the first time, at 56 years old. .
And father of twins, what's more.
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At the time, the actor could not hide his dismay.
"That wasn't part of the plan," he said.
His wife, who was then 12 weeks pregnant, had brought him, he says wryly, “to this thing where you go to look at the picture of the child”.
“There, he (
the doctor, editor’s note
) said: “It’s a boy”.
Then, "and a girl".
I was like, 'What? Are you kidding me?'” he recalled.
And to continue: “It was such a disaster.
I was 56 years old and it seemed really terrifying to me.
A feeling that did not last very long, since these twins, Ella and Alexander, 5 years old, are "now the best thing in the world" that has happened to him, he confided.
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Like Belmondo
In 2017, a few months before his two children were born, George Clooney had already confided in
Cinema Encounters
on Canal + about his future paternity.
"We are very happy and very excited," he said.
It's gonna be an adventure.
And we both accepted (
Amal and him, editor’s note
) all the adventures in our lives with open arms”.
“Jean-Paul Belmondo had a child very late.
I will be 56 when my twins are born!
(...) What I like best about all this is that all my friends my age have been fathers for a long time.
Their children are grown up, go to college and they have fun!”, he concluded in a very uninhibited way.
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