George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s almost 30-year friendship was precipitated by Princess Diana’s death, the Hollywood actors have revealed. Pitt, 60, said his close friend and fellow Oscar winner “first stood out” to him when he made a speech criticising the press after Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997 while she was being pursued by paparazzi. “We’ve been in Paris in those same chases”, Clooney, 63, told GQ during a joint cover interview with Pitt from Chateau Miraval, Pitt’s French vineyard.
“The hunt? I can’t tell you, I can’t describe it to anyone. It was insane. You would have nine cars following you.
They’re waiting for you,” Pitt said. The Fight Club actor added: “Oh my God. And you stop at a stoplight and they all get out and it’s flash-flash-flash-flash-flash-flash.
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