After an onset injury, spinal fluid was leaking out of his nose driving a tormented GEORGE CLOONEY to contemplate suicide!
Thankfully “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow’s neurologist brother literally saved George’s life after an on-set injury left him contemplating suicide.
“George can’t thank Lisa and her brother David enough,” an insider told The ENQUIRER.
“He was the doctor who helped pinpoint George’s problem and eventually put him on the road to recovery.”
The 50-year-old Oscar winner was filming the 2005 political thriller “Syriana” when he split his head open while his character was being tortured.
“I was taped to a chair and getting beaten up,” he recalled. “The chair was kicked over and I hit my head. I thought I’d had a stroke. It was like a train horn going off in your head.”
George quickly chartered a plane and jetted from Morocco back to Los Angeles, where he checked into Cedars- Sinai Medical Center. Spinal fluid was leaking out of his nose, but his problem wasn’t diagnosed until three weeks later when Lisa led him to her neurologist brother Dr. David Kudrow, 54.
That’s when Clooney learned fluid was also leaking from his spine and he had torn his dura, the outermost layer enveloping the spinal cord. The damage was repaired during a nine-hour operation on Christmas Day 2005, but before that, Clooney consid¬ered suicide.
“It was the most unbearable pain I’ve ever been through, literally where you’d go, ‘Well, you’ll have to kill yourself at some point, you can’t live like this,’” he said.
While his pain has never vanished, it has diminished.
“It’s been a long recovery,” Clooney admitted.
