George Clooney on proposal to wife Amal: ‘It was a disaster’

The notoriously private actor has lifted the lid on how he proposed in a candid new interview, admitting it was almost a complete failure.

George Clooney described his marriage proposal to Amal as a “disaster” after the human rights lawyer originally thought the 7-carat diamond ring belonged to one of his ex-girlfriends.

“It was a disaster, I planned it out, I planned the whole thing out,” the actor told Drew Barrymore on The Drew Barrymore Show.

“I’ve got the ring in a little drawer behind her, I’ve made dinner and we had only been dating for about six months.”

The Oceans Eleven actor noted that he planned to have Amal, 44, grab something from the drawer — where the ring was located — as the song Why Shouldn’t I by his aunt, Rosemary Clooney, played.

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Amal and George Clooney (pictured here at the recent premiere of his film, Ticket to Paradise) tied the knot in 2014. Picture: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images/AFP

However, things quickly took a turn for the worse when the lawyer discovered the ring and thought it belonged to one of Clooney’s ex-girlfriends.

“She kind of pulls this thing out, this little drawer, and there’s a diamond ring in there,” the Academy Award winner continued, adding that Amal scoffed at the site of the sparkler.

“And she looks at it and she’s like, ‘Uh there’s a ring in there.’ Like somebody left a ring there years ago. And I’m like on my knee…,” he joked while rolling his eyes.

George described the proposal as a “disaster”. Picture: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

After 20 minutes of the lawyer saying “‘Oh my God, Oh my God,’” she finally said “yes.”

The couple tied the knot just five months after the chaotic proposal in front of their closest friends and family during a lavish ceremony in Italy.

The couple, who recently celebrated their eight-year wedding anniversary in style, share 5-year-old twins Ella and Alexander — and have made some “terrible mistakes” as first-time parents.

While appearing on CBS Mornings last month, the A-list actor revealed the couple’s plan to teach their kids a second language backfired on them.

“We’ve made a terrible mistake,” the actor told host Gayle King. “We taught them Italian.”

“But we don’t speak Italian. So, we’ve armed them with a language they can harm us with. And we both don’t really know what they’re saying,” he joked, adding, “I’m from Kentucky. English is my second language.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

Originally published as George Clooney on proposal to wife Amal: ‘It was a disaster’