George Clooney, 61, says proposal to Amal, 44, was a ‘disaster’

George Clooney has shared new details about how he proposed to his human rights lawyer wife Amal Clooney whom he wed in 2014.

During a Friday episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the 61-year-old Ocean’s 11 actor shared that popping the question did not go that well, but he is happy she said yes after 20 minutes.

‘It was a disaster, I planned it out, I planned the whole thing out,’ he began as he went on to say she found the ring in his kitchen drawer but mistakenly thought another woman had perhaps left it there.

New info: George Clooney has shared new details about how he proposed to his human rights lawyer wife Amal Clooney whom he wed in 2014. Seen earlier this week in LA

Not as planned: During a Friday episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the 61-year-old Ocean’s 11 actor shared that popping the question did not go that well, but he is happy she said yes

Clooney, who is promoting Ticket To Paradise, said that he did all the rings things like play music from his aunt Rosemary Clooney

‘I was going to give her the ring right at this song Why Shouldn’t I,’ he shared. ‘I got the ring in the drawer and the song starts and I told her there was a lighter can you get it – we had a candle on but I blew it out so she could get the lighter.’

She sees the ring in the drawer and pulls it out. ‘She says, “There’s a ring there, like somebody left a ring there years earlier.” Clooney rolled his eyes,

‘And I am like on my knee like… and now the song is playing and – we know exactly how long [the proposal]took because of the playlist.

Silly: ‘It was a disaster, I planned it out, I planned the whole thing out,’ he began as he went on to say she found the ring in his kitchen drawer but mistakenly thought another woman had perhaps left it there. Seen in September in New York City

There is the rock: Here she flashed her large diamond engagement ring in 2016

‘She didn’t say yes till Goody Goody, … but that was supposed to be later when we were dancing.’

She kept saying ‘Oh my God, oh my God,’ he shared with Drew, clearly overwhelmed by the proposal.

He then said, ‘Listen I’d like to marry you but I am also not young and I have been on my knee now… I feel like I could lose a hip,’ he joked.

‘She said oh yes, and then she said yes, thank God. So I pulled it off!’

Telling the big story: Clooney, who is promoting Ticket To Paradise, said that he did all the rings things like play music from his aunt Rosemary Clooney

She supports him: ‘I was going to give her the ring right at this song Why Shouldn’t I,’ he shared. ‘I got the ring in the drawer and the song starts and I told her there was a lighter can you get it – we had a candle on but I blew it out so she could get the lighter.’ In London on September 7 for the Ticket To Paradise premiere

Drew was wowed and said it was good. 

In 2017 he told The Hollywood Reporter the same story: ‘I’m the cook in the family. Believe me, Amal makes reservations. I did pasta of some form, not that impressive. 

‘And then over champagne, after dinner, I told her there was a lighter to light the candle in the drawer, and she reached back and pulled out a ring. And I did all the stuff, got down on my knee and did all the things you’re supposed to do.’

She couldn’t speak. ‘I had a playlist with my Rosemary songs on it [his late aunt was the singer Rosemary Clooney], and I was waiting for this song, Why Shouldn’t I? It’s a really good song about why can’t I be in love? And it played, and she’s like, Holy s**t!

More to this: She sees the ring in the drawer and pulls it out. ‘She says, “There’s a ring there, like somebody left a ring there years earlier.” Clooney rolled his eyes, ‘And I am like on my knee like… and now the song is playing and – we know exactly how long [the proposal]took because of the playlist’

‘And she just kept staring at the ring, going, Oh, my God. It was 20 minutes of me on my knee, waiting for her to say yes, because she was so shocked. She only said yes when Goody, Goody came on, which isn’t very romantic — it’s kind of mean: So you met someone who set you back on your heels, goody, goody.’

Together they have two children, twins Alexander and Ella who are age five. 

He also told Barrymore about  the first time they met. 

‘Well its funny she came to the house in Como with a friend of hers to visit and immediately I was like…’ began the star who is starring in the new movie Ticket To Paradise with Julia Roberts.

The former ER hunk then explained more about falling for the 44-year-old Lebanese-British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, who specializes in international law and human rights.

Where love blossomed: George and Amal had their first meeting at his home in Italy

‘The funniest thing is Bryan Lourd my agent called me, he had just met Amal at some other thing and she was like, “Yeah I am going to go to Como with a friend of mine,” and he called me up and he said, “There’s a girl coming to your house that you are going to marry,”‘ added the Kentucky native.

At the time, Clooney thought that sounded off.

‘I was like, “You’re an idiot. You know that’s not going to happen,”‘ added the star who has dated Elisabetta Canalis, Céline Balitran, Lisa Snowdon, Krista Allen and Sarah Larson.

‘And then in comes Amal and we stayed up all night talking and I started writing her a bunch of letters,’ shared the Money Monster actor.

Drew then said, ‘Like on pen and paper.’

Love at first sight: ‘Well its funny she came to the house in Como with a friend of hers to visit and immediately I was like…’ began the star. Seen in September

George replied, ‘Yep, we still write letters. Leave them on the pillow.’

George has been talking about his personal life while promoting his new rom-com Ticket To Paradise with Roberts.

On Monday he said Universal is ‘brave’ to release his film Ticket To Paradise in cinemas.

The actor features alongside Roberts in the romantic comedy and was grateful for the studio’s backing in what has been a tough time for the movie industry.

George told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Universal did a very brave thing.

‘These things are only going on streamers now and they did a very brave thing to make a movie like this. We’re grateful. We’re hopeful.’

Their new movie: Clooney, left, and Julia Roberts in Ticket To Paradise

Her pal: Asked about the best part of working with George, the Pretty Woman star said: ‘Having a backup, having a friend. ‘It’s such a puppy pile of a job where there’s so many people involved and then you’re kind of sent off like this satellite to talk about it all by yourself. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. And so, to be in lockstep with someone, it just makes it so much more fun’

The movie follows George and Julia as a divorced couple who travel to Bali in a bid to sabotage their daughter’s (Kaitlyn Dever) wedding and avoid the mistakes they made 25 years earlier and Clooney considers it a ‘great success’ already.

The Up in the Air star said: ‘This is all fun. We’re proud of the film. We enjoy it. It’s a hit already and so we already feel like it’s sort of been a great success.’

The film is the latest collaboration between Clooney and Roberts – after ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind’ and ‘Money Monster’ – and Julia always finds it ‘fun’ working together with her friend.

Asked about the best part of working with George, the Pretty Woman star said: ‘Having a backup, having a friend.

‘It’s such a puppy pile of a job where there’s so many people involved and then you’re kind of sent off like this satellite to talk about it all by yourself. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. And so, to be in lockstep with someone, it just makes it so much more fun.’

George Clooney, 61, says proposal to Amal, 44, was a ‘disaster’
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