The Incredible Gesture George Clooney Made For His Friends

In an interview with GQ, Clooney revealed how he made a lot of money from his 2013 movie, Gravity. Back then, he didn’t have a wife or children yet.

“And I thought, what I do have are these guys who've all, over a period of 35 years, helped me in one way or another,” he said. “I've slept on their couches when I was broke. They loaned me money when I was broke. They helped me when I needed help over the years.”

The Up in the Air star acknowledged that he wouldn’t have any of his success if he didn’t have those friends. And so he wanted to give something back to them.

“I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they're all in the will,” he continued. “So why the f**k am I waiting to get hit by a bus?”

That was when he thought of giving $1 million in cash to each of those 14 pals.

How Clooney got the $14 million in cash was a story straight out of a Hollywood movie. Driving a “florist” van, he went to a downtown Los Angeles location that had “giant pallets of cash,” loaded up the vehicle with the money, bought 14 Tumi bags, and then packed those with a million dollars each, noting that the cash “isn't as much as you think it is, weight-wise.”

The following day, he invited his 14 friends over for the incredible surprise.

The Ocean’s Eleven actor then revealed how it all went down, saying “I just held up a map and I just pointed to all the places I got to go in the world and all the things I've gotten to see because of them. And I said, ‘How do you repay people like that?’ And I said, ‘Oh, well: How about a million bucks?’”

What a great guy!