The actor and director’s scathing opinion piece in USA Today pulls no punches in its criticism of the British news organisation.
George Clooney is used to having newspapers and magazines write about him with varying degrees of accuracy. But he's now saying that enough is enough.
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Clooney has written an opinion piece for USA Today in which he says that the Mail put his family and friends "in harm's way" with a report about his fiancée's mother being unhappy about their upcoming marriage.
The report Clooney took exception to was posted on MailOnline on Monday.
It said that Baria Alamuddin wanted her daughter Amal to marry within the Druze Muslim community instead of marrying Clooney.
The article says that "several women have been murdered for disobeying the rules" on marriage, and that one Sunni Muslim man had his penis cut off for marrying a Druze woman. The Mail quotes a "friend" of the family saying, "There have been a few jokes in the family about the same thing happening to George!"
But Clooney says that Amal's mother is not Druze and is in "no way against the marriage".
The story, however, has been widely followed up and repeated internationally.
I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday's Daily Mail report. I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or wellbeing. The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story about my fiancée's mother opposing our marriage for religious reasons. It says Amal's mother has been telling "half of Beirut" that she's against the wedding. It says they joke about traditions in the Druze religion that end up with the death of the bride.
Let me repeat that: the death of the bride.
First of all, none of the story is factually true. Amal's mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage – but none of that is the issue
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