The Hollywood A-list star George Clooney spoke out over the weekend to talk about how much he is loving life as a devoted husband and father.
While appearing on “CBS Sunday Morning” to promote his new Netflix movie The Midnight Sky, Clooney talked about his marriage to his wife Amal and about their twin 3 year-old children, Alexander and Ella.
“There is no question that having Amal in my life changed everything for me,” he said. “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,” Clooney added, referring to his twins. “It is very fulfilling and something I wasn’t at all… didn’t see coming.”
Clooney met Amal in 2013 and married her one year later in a lavish Italian wedding. Despite this, he revealed in his new interview that they initially had no plans to marry.
“We never talked about marriage when we were dating,” he said. “I asked her out of the blue, took her a long time to say yes. I was on my knee for like 20 minutes, I finally said, ‘Look, I’m gonna throw my hip out.’ ”
“We never talked about having kids, and then one day we just said, ‘What do you think?’ ” Clooney continued. “We go to the doctor and you do the ultrasound. They’re like, ‘You got a baby boy!’ and I was like, ‘Baby boy, fantastic!’ And they go, ‘And you got another one there.’ I was up for one. Again, I’m old. All of a sudden, it’s two. It’s hard to get me to not talk and I just stood there for like 10 minutes just staring at this piece of paper going, ‘What? Two?'”
These days, however, Clooney is “so glad” that his twins have each other.
“It’s unbelievable,” the actor said.
Clooney went on to talk about what life has been like for him in lockdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s been a while since I did 15 loads of laundry in a day and mopped floors and all these doors over here I stained,” he said. “I always say I felt like my mother in 1964, because she had two kids and no help. I don’t know she did it now, I have more sympathy for her now than ever.”
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