14 DAY TRIAL // She could easily be dubbed the luckiest woman on the face of the planet for grabbing the world’s hottest bachelor, George Clooney – and Elisabetta Canalis’ interview for Vanity Fair does nothing to lessen that impression. For the first time in her 1-year relationship with the actor, Canalis is talking about what it’s like to be loved by a man like him, how she reacts to skepticism about their romance and why other women out there hate her, as People magazine can confirm.
In what is a first interview of this type, Canalis says that what she loves the most about Clooney is his humanitarian side and how he’s always thinking of ways to make the lives of others better. Second best comes the way in which he loves her and always supports her in everything she does – and even comes to her defense when the media turns on her. This last thing happens quite a lot, the model and television personality says, but the only explanation she can find for it is that people are – to put it bluntly – jealous of what she has.
“[He is] the person thanks to which my life has regained color. I feel good, I feel light. Like when I was 18 years old. I am happy like I was when I was 18 years old. Those who criticize or invent stories about us are just jealous. It might seem a cliché, but unfortunately it is true: the Italians never support their own citizens who earn an opportunity or a recognition abroad… I don’t expect to be celebrated, but neither do I expect the newspapers of our country to use as a reference point a gossip blog which is full of insults, racism and violence,” the 31-year-old beauty says.
Skepticism about her and about her relationship with Clooney started from day one. “I did not feel offended: it’s absurd; there is no point in giving it any importance. It certainly affected me the other day to be asked by the lady at the cash register of supermarket in Alghero [her home town in Sardinia, Italy]: ‘Is it true that you are his girlfriend?’ Yes, it is true. We are together. I have heard of women – even famous women – that due to this [relationship] removed his photo as screensavers from their computers. Maybe I am a bit stressed. But in the end the best revenge over these jealous people is to be happy. Because that is the thing they do not forgive you for,” Elisabetta says.
Judging by the statement Clooney released a few months ago, when rumors that he and his lady had broken up where literally setting the tabloids on fire, Elisabetta has every reason to feel that he can protect her from the media. Back then, the Hollywood star kept it short and classy, not naming any names – and not even specifying what he was talking about – by simply saying that the tabloids should not “let facts get in the way of a good story.”
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