George Clooney Confesses To His 'Disaster' Of A Proposal To Amal Clooney
Updated article on 24/10/22 - George Clooney's Proposal Was A Disaster
George Clooney has admitted that his proposal to now-wife Amal Clooney was something of a disaster
During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, which aired on Friday October 21, the actor revealed it took him around 2o minutes to get all of what he wanted to say out, despite him planning way in advance.
He said: 'It was a disaster, I planned it out, I planned the whole thing out.'
George had left the ring he planned to propose with in a kitchen drawer for Amal to find, but when she saw it, the human rights lawyer assumed it had belonged to another woman.
He explained: 'I was going to give her the ring right at this song "Why Shouldn't I"', referring to a song by his late aunt Rosemary Clooney.
'I got the ring in the drawer and the song starts and I told her there was a lighter can you get it — we had a candle on but I blew it out so she could get the lighter,' he added.
'She sees the ring in the drawer and pulls it out. She says, "There's a ring there," like somebody left a ring there years earlier....And I am like on my knee like... and now the song is playing and - we know exactly how long [the proposal]took because of the playlist.
'She didn't say yes till "Goody Goody",... but that was supposed to be later when we were dancing...She kept saying "Oh my God, oh my God."'
George pleaded with Amal to let him know his fate as he couldn't kneel and wait for her answer anymore.
'She said, "Oh yes," and then she said, "Yes," thank God. So I pulled it off!' he concluded.
George also recalled the first time he met Amal, through a friend at Lake Como in Italy, where they still visit regularly, and being stunned by her.
He quipped: 'The funniest thing is Bryan Lourd my agent called me, he had just met Amal at some other thing and she was like, "Yeah I am going to go to Como with a friend of mine," and he called me up and he said, "There's a girl coming to your house that you are going to marry."'
'I was like, "You're an idiot. You know that's not going to happen,"' he added.
'And then in comes Amal and we stayed up all night talking and I started writing her a bunch of letters.'
Seeking clarity, Barrymore said: 'Like on pen and paper,' at which point George said: 'Yep, we still write letters.
'Leave them on the pillow.'
Updated article on 04/04/22: Amal Clooney spoke lovingly of her husband George Clooney during an interview with Time, after being dubbed one of the news outlet's 2022 Women of the Year.
The human rights attorney said: 'Marriage has been wonderful. I have in my husband a partner who is incredibly inspirational and supportive, and we have a home filled with love and laughter.'
The mother of four-year-old twins Ella and Alexander added: 'It is a joy beyond anything I could ever have imagined. I feel so lucky to have found a great love in my life, and to be a mother — this is how I get my balance.'
Updated article on 16/11/21: George Clooney has gushed about his marriage to Amal and children Ella and Alexander in what might be his most adorable interview yet.
During a recent interview with the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, the actor admitted he 'couldn’t be happier' with family life.
He described his wife as 'the most extraordinary, smart, brilliant, beautiful woman I've ever met', and noted that the initial attraction between them 'was nothing I've ever experienced before, by far'.
'Listen, I didn’t want to get married; I didn’t want to have kids,' he noted. 'And then this extraordinary human being walked into my life and I just fell madly in love. And I knew from the minute I met her that everything was going to be different.
'I went out with a lot of really nice, smart and talented people. It's just that every once in a while, there's somebody that's specifically for you. I feel like Amal and I feel that way.'
The star revealed he and his wife 'never discussed getting married' when they were dating, but had spoken about the possibility of parenthood.
'It was a discussion,' he said when discussing the time they decided to try for a child. 'We'd been married for about a year and we were at a friend's house and they had a kid there, which was loud and obnoxious and I was like, "Oh sh*t!"'
Clooney recalled that during the visit at their friends' home he and his wife stepped outside and that she said that she felt 'awfully lucky in life'.
'And I said, "Yeah we are, we're lucky we found each other". And she said, "It seems like that luck should be shared with some other folks."' I thought about it for maybe a minute. Then I just said, "Well, I'm in if you're in."'
On finding out his wife was pregnant with twins he recalled: 'I was gob-smacked because I was kind of up for one, you know?'
'I love it now, and thank god they have each other,' he said of his twins. 'I couldn’t be more surprised at how happy I am. It’s a very odd thing I do have to say.'
The star also noted how he and Amal plan to spent time with their kids and go traveling.
'You know, we have a house with a lake with a rope swing. I could still do the rope swing at 60, I'm not sure about 80!' he joked.
Article originally published on 18/12/2020: Amal Clooney has paid tribute to her husband George as she promotes her latest book, simultaneously vowing not to write another for the 'sake of my marriage'.
The human rights barrister appeared on a panellist of lawyers via Zoom call for the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute on Thursday (December 17) where she discussed her latest book The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law.
While discussing the book, which she co-authored with Professor Phillipa Webb and is all about the basic human right to a fair trial, Clooney thanked her husband George for his patience during the book writing process.
'I want to end by thanking my husband George,' Clooney said. 'I know this process seems interminable to him, especially as I was always so sure that "this was the last drafting session" over and over again. The book drafting took place at all his filming locations and throughout the process he was not only patient but so wonderfully encouraging and inspiring. I really did not need another example of how amazing he is but this process provided one.'
Telling her panellists that she believed her husband of six years was watching the call downstairs from the kitchen, she jokingly made a promise to him, laughing: 'I just want to say thank you and from my side I can promise, for the sake of our marriage, that I will never do this again.'
While Amal has been penning away her thoughts on how to have a fair trial, George has been busy filming, directing and most recently promoting his upcoming Netflix movie, The Midnight Sky, which sees the actor play a scientist who attempts to warn some incoming astronauts about a global catastrophe on earth, while also caring for his daughter.
In recent interviews, the Oscar-winner has gushed about his wife and family in equal measures, saying her was able to resonate with the themes messaging because of his role as a husband and father.
'There is no question that having Amal in my life changed everything for me,' he told CBS. 'It was the first time that everything that she did and everything about her was infinitely more important than anything about me.
'And then we had these two knuckleheads, and it is very fulfilling, and it's something I wasn't at all... didn't see coming.'
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