It's what they were saying while they were pointing their phones at his bloody, wrecked body. But I'll never forget the moment that what I thought might be my last few moments was for everyone else a piece of entertainment.”Īctually, Clooney says, he remembers one other thing about this day. I'm not a cynical guy, and I really tend to look at life and try to find the good in everything. “Meanwhile there are people taking pictures.”Īnd here even Clooney gets somber for a second. “While we're waiting for the ambulance, I'm literally holding his head in my lap, saying, ‘It's okay, it's going to be fine,’ ” Heslov tells me. And Grant came back, and he was screaming at everybody to get an ambulance, and I remember everybody got out of their cars, they stopped in the middle of the street, and all these people came and stood over me and just pulled out their phones and started taking video.” At first, Heslov says, he thought Clooney was dead. He was riding with his longtime friend and producing partner, Grant Heslov, and after Clooney landed on the pavement, Clooney says, “I was on the ground. “But I will remember, there is one moment.…”Ĭlooney wasn't alone that day. “Although my kids were like a year old, and mostly it was just the thought that this was it and that I wasn't gonna see them again.” He says his wife, Amal, has since forbidden him to ride again, which he has accepted. He was more or less fine, aside from whatever he did to his neck and his knees when he landed.
But it was glass from the windshield.” He also knew, just from years of riding motorcycles, that any injury that involves ramming your neck into someone else's car generally results in paralysis, so he lay there “waiting for the switch to turn off.” But it didn't turn off. “When I hit the ground,” Clooney says, “my mouth-I thought all my teeth were broken out. He also crushed the guy's windshield with his helmet. It knocked me out of my shoes.” Literally. If you did it 100 times, maybe once you land on your hands and knees, and any other version you land, you're toast. There is CCTV footage of the accident, and you can watch if you want.
“He literally turned directly in front of me,” Clooney says. Then, a year and a half ago, while riding 75 miles an hour on his motorcycle to the set of Catch-22 in Sardinia, he hit a car. Clooney says it felt like “euphoria” when his brain finally tricked itself into feeling normal again.
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