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George Clooney Reveals Shocking Suicidal Thoughts

Madeline Morris |
November 14, 2011 | 8:54 a.m. PST

Staff Contributor

 

George Clooney (wikimedia)
George Clooney (wikimedia)
It looks like filming “Syriana” had some pretty serious consequences for George Clooney. Back in 2005, the actor was left with a debilitating spinal injury due to a stunt-gone-wrong.  In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Clooney reveals that the pain was so intense, he pondered enacting his own demise.

“I was at a point where I thought, 'I can't exist like this. I can't actually live,'" Clooney told the magazine. "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 short three-week period, I started to think, 'I may have to do something drastic about this.'"

As gruesome as Clooney’s thoughts were, the 50-year-old charmer doesn’t stop there with the dirty details. "You start to think in terms of, you don't want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, start the engine. It seems like the nicest way to do it, but I never thought I'd get there. See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive."

Rather than hop in a car, Clooney turned to heavy drinking before undergoing successful surgery that turned his life around.  Today, Clooney is in happy and healthy spirits and is currently promoting his next drama “The Descendants.”  

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