George Clooney contemplated suicide after ‘Syriana’ accident

In an interview in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, George Clooney reveals that he seriously considered suicide after sustaining a spinal injury during the filming of Syriana.

When filming a scene involving Clooney’s character being strapped to a chair and tortured, Clooney sustained a spinal injury that ultimately required several surgeries to fix. But while his recovery process was going on, Clooney says that the pain was so unbearable that he considered suicide.

“I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live,’” he said in the interview. “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.’

“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.”

Since then, Clooney has underwent several surgeries to help him with the pain, but he says he still suffers from severe headaches from time to time.

Source: Rolling Stone Magazine

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