George Clooney says that his 2018 motorcycle accident in Italy turned out to be entertainment for those who gawked after he was thrown over the front of his bike and up in the air before landing on the asphalt.
The accident – which was caught on camera – was his worst moment of his life, yet George said it was the world’s reaction that made things worse. Here’s what he has to say.
Right before he was thrown in the air, George slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane and was thrown several yards in the air on the Italian island of Sardinia.
George Clooney Says His Motorcycle Accident Was ‘Entertainment’ For Bystanders
“I’m not a cynical guy, but I will always, always remember that moment because nobody was jumping to go call for help or coming to help,” he told AARP in a new interview.
“For them the worst moment of my life was entertainment,” he continued. People are getting killed because they’re taking a shot of a car crash coming toward them. We’re living in this world where everybody is trying to make themselves fascinating or important or something. When the reality is: Put that phone down.”
George said that even though he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance after the crash, he was discharged later that day with just minor injuries. But the accident definitely helped him put things in perspective for him and his life.
“I’m not a particularly religious guy,” George said. “So I have to be skeptical about an afterlife. But as you get older, you start to think, ‘Well, wait a minute. It’s very hard for me to say, once you’re finished with this chassis that we’re in, you’re just done.”
“My version of it is that you’re taking that one one-hundredth of a pound of energy that disappears when you die and you’re jamming it right into the hearts of all the other people you’ve been closed to,” he shared.
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