Clooney Contemplated Taking His Life Over Back Pain
George Clooney has revealed he contemplated suicide as he struggled to cope with the pain of a spinal injury while filming acclaimed 2005 motion picture Syriana.
The actor insisted on doing his own stunts for the tense spy drama, for which he gained weight and grew a beard, and one fight scene left him in crippling agony.
As he recovered in hospital after the motion picture wrapped he admits he thought about ending his life – because the pain was too great.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine, “I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live.’
“I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV (intravenous drip) 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’.
“You begin to think in terms of, you don’t want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, begin the engine. It seems like the nicest way to do it.”
All the pain was rewarded at the Oscars the following year – Clooney won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for the role of Bob Barnes.
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