George Clooney carries the image of the refined gentleman, of a devoted spouse and faultless parent. But even he, at times, lets loose. In a chat with Esquire, the thespian recounted the peculiar ending to his night at the Tony Awards 2025, where he was a contender for best lead performer in the spectacle Good night, and good luck. Nevertheless, the figurine was awarded to Cole Escola. And Clooney opted to “make up” for six months of teetotalism swiftly.
“I wrecked myself. Sozzled to the point of barely standing, get it? I went home with Amal, I simply cackled,” he confessed. To portray the journalist Edward R. Murrow onstage, George had in actuality chosen to abstain from liquor, permitting himself merely a wineglass on Sunday eve. A self-control lasting until the Tony’s night, when the defeat morphed into a justification for a tipple a tad lengthier than foreseen.
«Amal and I were in slumber and I quipped: “Well, in a solitary evening I compensated for all my abstinence. The subsequent day I was awful all day, it was comical,” he uttered. «I was inebriated like back in secondary school. Blotto to the core».
George Clooney confessed that his bond with alcohol has evolved through the years: “I had stretches in which… I wouldn’t articulate it was an issue—I never arose and began imbibing, nothing akin to that—though it transpired that I had periods where I was rather tipsy every single night».
He also owned up to having also tried narcotics: «In 1982 I sampled: Cocaine and other substances. I made light of how I had overdone it, but the truth is that it was never a monumental quandary for me. I even recall an installment of Taxi in which everyone snorted. Back then it was declared: “It’s not like heroin, it doesn’t result in reliance”. Then instead, in actuality, it’s a reasonably dreadful thing».
Not solely the eighties. Clooney also reminisced about a foray with cannabis, roughly fifteen years prior, along with a coterie of companions: «We were stoned. I surmise everyone, we numbered twenty in the hall to behold The Wizard of Oz. Subsequent to the film we lingered there without uttering a syllable for hours. Hours!… It’s not my vice».
And it’s not the premiere occasion that Clooney has conceded that he presented himself “in particular conditions” on a set. With Michelle Pfeiffer, during the filming of One fine day in 1996, he chanced to arrive still from the eve before: «I roused at five, I mused I was alright. Then I glanced in the mirror and grasped that I was still plastered. Arrived on the set he peered at me and he articulated to me: “What’s occurring?”. Me: “I didn’t recognize he was filming today.” “You’re still soused“». To redeem himself, Clooney recounts that he has spritzed himself copious amounts of listerine down his gullet, “to eradicate the whiff of brewery”.
(Tottenslate) George Clooney
