George Clooney Reveals He Suffered from Bell’s Palsy as a Teenager
George Clooney is talking a couple of well being ordeal he handled as a young person.
Whereas appearing on the 20th-anniversary episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday, the actor, 61, sat down with host Jimmy Kimmel and mentioned at one level through the present how he was identified with Bell’s palsy when he was youthful.
Clooney, who has Kimmel’s first visitor on his late-night speak present sequence when it premiered in 2003, was joined by Snoop Dogg, who served as co-host for the primary few episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Reside! on the time.
After Kimmel, 55, shared a throwback {photograph} of Dogg, 51, from highschool, the comic additionally shared a set of pictures of Clooney from across the identical time.
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“George, we occur to have some footage of you from, this was a bit of earlier than highschool,” Kimmel mentioned, sharing a primary picture of a preteen Clooney sporting a bowl reduce and carrying glasses.
“I need to level out that my mom reduce my hair,” the actor mentioned in response, earlier than Kimmel then pulled out one other image of him a number of years older, the place he could possibly be seen with a barely slanted smile.
However, earlier than Kimmel might poke enjoyable at Clooney’s look, the Ticket to Paradise star informed him, “Now wait, I need to level out one thing as a result of you are going to snicker, gonna make a joke. I’ve Bell’s palsy there and half of my face is paralyzed.”
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“Take a look at this, watch this,” Clooney added, as he coated half of his face within the {photograph} along with his hand. “For those who go like this, on the opposite aspect, it is a fully totally different face. So now make your joke. Come on, humorous man. Come on, let me provide you with my unhappy face.”
Kimmel mentioned, nevertheless, “You understand what? I did not have a joke, George, and you actually introduced everyone down.”
He then continued, “Possibly we must always have one other toast to convey issues again up,” earlier than he, Clooney and Dogg every took a shot collectively.
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Bell’s palsy, in response to the Mayo Clinic, is a short lived situation that causes sudden weakness in the muscles on one aspect of the face. It usually improves over a number of weeks.
Per the group, the precise explanation for the situation is unknown, and it not often happens greater than as soon as in an individual’s lifetime.