'The longest relationship of my life': how George Clooney lived with a pig for 18 years
'17.06.2021'
Source: Yandex Zen
George Clooney's pet, a hog named Max, lived to a ripe old age - 18 years. And all these years the actor appreciated friendship with a pet, sometimes even contrary to the demands of his women, writes the author of the blog "I love cinema" on Yandex Zen.
A pig lived in the house of the American actor, director, producer and entrepreneur George Clooney for 18 years. An ordinary pig, with a piglet, a hook tail and four hooves - and now we are not talking about a mini-pig, but about a full-fledged hog weighing 126 kg. The hog's name was Max, and Clooney liked to say that the relationship with Max was the longest in his life.
Put a pig
This story began in 1988. Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston, to whom he gave a cute little piglet Max. Probably the man who sold Max to George forgot to mention that this piglet will eventually grow into a full-fledged boar the size of a dinner table with an irrepressible appetite.
In 1989, Kelly left Clooney for John Travolta, whom she eventually married, but she did not take the pig with her, and Max settled in George's house. Note that Clooney and Travolta remained good friends, and some time later John even took George and Max on his private plane.
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Max had his own kennel (or is it more correct to call it a pigsty?). Every morning at Clooney's house began with the pig lying down on the rug by the front door and screaming in a bad voice until breakfast was brought out. However, Max often slept in the house, near George's bed, or even in bed with him.
And on January 14, 2014, an earthquake occurred in Los Angeles, about which the eminent actor recalls not without excitement: “Max slept in bed with me that night, then he began to wake me up a few minutes before the earthquake. I got angry and yelled at him, but then everything around me started shaking. The house seemed to collapse on me. I jumped out naked, and Max with me. "
End of friendship
Some journalists scoff, they say, probably Max was the reason for Clooney's short-term relationships with women. There is some truth in this joke, because the model Celine Balitran gave the actor an ultimatum: “Choose: either me or the pig,” but received a completely different answer from which she hoped.
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Max lived for 18 years, becoming by pig standards a real long-liver record holder. At the end of his life, he suffered from arthritis and was almost completely blind, but Clooney continued to take care of him.
In early December 2006, Max died. George had not been with his boar friend in his last days, as he should have been in Manhattan for work. Upon learning that the pig had passed away, Clooney, along with Danny de Vito and several lesser-known friends, went to an Italian restaurant in New York and got heavily drunk with red wine and limoncello. The Independent reports, referring to the words of Clooney's PR man Stan Rosenfeld, that the actor vomited three times that evening.
After the death of the elderly hog, Clooney did not start new piglets.
“Max fully satisfied my need to communicate with pigs,” - said George in one of his interviews.
Original column published on the blog. "I love cinema" on Yandex Zen
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