George Clooney: 'Dad's fame made childhood difficult'

George Clooney has revealed that his journalist father Nick Clooney's fame made his childhood difficult at times.

The Descendants star explained that his father's reputation as one of Cincinnati's most trusted newsmen meant that the Clooney children had little privacy.

"You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio through northern Kentucky, my father was a big, big star. So that made my sister and me really visible," he told Rolling Stone.

"Everybody knew us, talked about us. If I scored 15 points in a basketball game, the paper would say, 'Nick Clooney's son scored 15 points'."

George revealed that the scrutiny was particularly tough when he developed Bell's palsy, a form of facial paralysis, as a teenager.

"It was very awkward, being watched like that, everybody looking at us, and then all of a sudden your face goes flat? My dad would always say, 'It's going to go away, you'll be fine, you can handle it'," George recalled.

"It was a tricky thing. So, you develop a better personality and learn how to make jokes about it."

George recently revealed that he lost his virginity when he was 16 years old.

The Descendants opens on November 16 in US cinemas and on January 27, 2012 in the UK.

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