George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney are taking precautions amid the pandemic because one of their 3-year-old twins has asthma. The 59-year-old told The Guardian: “My son has asthma. They say it’s not so bad on young people. But do we know that? We don’t know anything about the long term of this yet.”
He admits that they have it pretty easy. He told the paper: “I ended up having a successful career. I wound up living in a home with some space in it. We can walk around outside. … This has been a crappy year for everyone. Started badly and ran badly all year long, until recently.”
George and Amal, a noted human rights lawyer on focusing on making the world better for their kids: “I just feel like, with kids this age, having young children in a period of time when there’s all this craziness, I wanna make sure I can say, ‘These are the things we did to stand against this moment in history.’ Not just to make them proud. But to make their world better.”
In 2016, they set up a foundation to track international figures guilty of abusing human rights. He explained: “We have forensic accountants we’ve hired away from the FBI to find these illicit bank accounts. People who are supposed to be safeguarding their people and, instead, are profiteering while those people are murdered? It’s really nice to be able to freeze all their assets and make them suddenly broke. It’s about as fun as anything can be.”
