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George Clooney recently went public about his relationship with 30-year-old Italian TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis, but he hasn't always been so confident in earlier relationships. This week the actor opened up to
London's Daily Mirror about his past heartache:
"I've had some absolutely great relationships and some not so great relationships. I've been in some relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone it doesn't mean you're incredibly happy and complete."
The star of "Up In the Air" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats," who was briefly married to actress Talia Balsam in the late 1980s, even spoke about his breakups: "I've had some easy and natural, made-sense breakups as well as some rough ones. I deal with them the same way we all do: I'm successful with some and not so successful with others.
"I don't think my experiences are any different than anybody else's, they've just been amplified a little more."
Clooney didn't speak directly about his relationship with Canalis, but did offer hints about his social life when he talked about why he loves his home in Lake Como, Italy:
"Some of the most fun dinners I've ever had have been there. There's always 10 or 15 people and we have wild fun evenings of interesting people telling interesting stories. I relate to nothing but joy and happiness there -- it's been the greatest thing I've ever done for myself."
Clooney is only 48, but told the Mirror people often think he's older:
"It's funny because earlier in my career I was working with a lot of actresses who were my age or older and most actors work with actresses who are considerably younger. So people always thought I was older anyway and I've been going through this thing with people thinking I'm about 60."
But Clooney, who survived a painful spine injury while filming "Syriana" in 2004 that
he said left him suicidal for months, puts his age in perspective:
"I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead."
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