George Clooney

So I knew her like, here comes the star, Aunt Rosemary.

But I didn't really know her.

And so how I found out about sort of her life...

And the struggles that she had was, first of all, through, you know, family telling us, but then also she wrote a book and talked about it, which was about her struggles because, you know, she was really famous by the time she was 16 years old.

They were the Clooney sisters and they sang on television and then moved on to have her own solo career.

And, you know, pop music at that point, I think eight of the top 10 singers were women in the

very early, late 40s, early 50s.

And then rock and roll came in, Elvis came in, and the top 20 were all men.

And she was out of the business.

She didn't suddenly lose her skill.

She didn't stop being a good singer.

The world stopped wanting what she did for a living.

And so by the time she was 23 or 24 years old,

You know, she was going in the wrong direction and she didn't handle it well.

You know, drugs were a big deal.

It started out as sort of Dr. Feelgood giving you sleeping pills and waking up pills.

That time, yeah.

And then she became addicted to that and booze was a big deal.

And she never lost her talent, but she lost a career.

And for, I don't know, 25 or so years, really through the years when I was growing up, no one had heard of Rosemary Clooney when I was a kid in high school.