Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

George Clooney in Syriana

Although it wasn't highly publicized at the time, George Clooney nearly lost his life on the set of Syriana. The actor was badly injured in a stunt gone wrong—he broke his back, and the injury was so painful that he considered suicide.

"I was at a point where I thought, 'I can't exist like this. I can't actually live,'" he told Huffington Post. "I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you're having a stroke, and for a short three-week period, I started to think, 'I may have to do something drastic about this.'"

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