Clooney says "no" to tabloid apology

  • 10 years ago
George Clooney refused to accept an apology from Britain's Daily Mail after it published what he said was a false story "insinuating religious tensions" by saying his future mother-in-law opposed his marriage to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.

The Oscar-winning actor said the apology showed that the Mail knew the online story about Alamuddin's mother preferring her daughter to marry within the family's religion was a lie when it published the story.

Clooney, 53, said in a statement published in the newspaper USA Today on Friday (July 11) that while he "thanks the Mail for its apology... I would ever accept it ..."

A trailer for the upcoming feature film directed by Angelina Jolie was released Friday (July 11).

"Unbroken," about a World War II-era prisoner of war, hits theaters this December, and is the second film directed by the Oscar-winning actress.

"Unbroken" is based on the best-selling 2010 book of the same name and tells the life story of Louis

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