George Clooney: I'm lucky to have found fame late

Hollywood star George Clooney says he feels incredibly 'lucky' that he didn't find fame until he was 33.

George Clooney's drunken disaster

The 55-year-old '

Monuments Men

' star shot to fame when he starred in '

ER

' in 1994 and admits he is glad to have not gone through the same struggles as his aunt Rosemary Clooney, who suffered from a drug addiction, reported Entertainment Weekly.

"I was lucky because real fame happened when I was 33. I lived a normal life for a lot longer than I haven't been living one... She went through a really horrible time her first run at fame. I got to see how damaging that was," he said.

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