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As he previewed in yesterday’s Berlinale press conference, George Clooney met with Chancellor Angela Merkel today in Berlin. Or should I say… the Clooneys met with Merkel. Amal came along with George to discuss the ongoing European refugee crisis. I’m assuming Merkel’s office released this ^^ official portrait of Amal and George in Merkel’s office. Apparently, they met for “an hour” this morning.

What bugs me about this is that Chancellor Merkel has been one of the few European leaders to really welcome and embrace refugees, and it’s been that way for months now. It bugs me that the story being told – in trade papers and American media outlets – like George is really moving the needle in any way. Merkel is already where she needs to be. This meeting is kind of a waste of her time.

Meanwhile, George wants us to feel sorry for Amal! Poor Amal. George told journalists that it’s “hard” for Amal to be married to him, became fame.

“It’s harder for her. We were in New York and Amal, who lived in New York for six years and worked there, said: ‘Let’s walk to Central Park’, and I said: ‘You can’t’. I say this with the understanding, that no one wants to hear people who have fame and everything, complain. I’m not complaining, I’m just explaining it. You can’t walk out when there is 30 people follow you everywhere. That is always the case. For her that is the real adjustment. It’s been fine at public events but it’s been very hard when she is teaching at Columbia, when people follow her into the classroom where she is teaching. Those are difficult things for her. But she handles it like a pro, she’s great. She’s so great at what she does.”

[From The Daily Mirror]

Maybe it was truly difficult for Amal to transition into being married to a famous person, but from the way she looked and acted from the very beginning, she always seemed to take to it like a duck to water. Even when the Clooneys were in New York, she was doing pap strolls like a pro.

George also said that they’re still doing the endless remodel of their home in the English countryside: “We are remodeling our house which is hell. We’ve got married and remodeled the house. We are having fun.”

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