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George Clooney: I’m no hypochondriac

George Clooney is still sore at the doctors who told him the painful headaches he suffered last year weren't anything to worry about. It was only when he went to see a neurologist that he found out he

George Clooney is still sore at the doctors who told him the painful headaches he suffered last year weren’t anything to worry about.

It was only when he went to see a neurologist that he found out he had a life-threatening breach in his dura – the substance that surrounds the brain and spine.

George remembers: “It was like an ice-cream brain freeze 24 hours a day. A lot of the doctors were like, ‘You’ve got a headache. Go home.’ I understand what they were thinking: ‘oh, he’s an actor. He’s being dramatic’.”

Neurologists fixed his spine up with plastic bolts last December and the ocean’s 11 star is now fully recovered.

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