16 Celebrities with Chronic Illnesses

George Clooney

Chronic pain

"It's been a long recovery," Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter in February 2012 of an accident that led to his struggle with chronic pain. "I had to accept that I'm going to beat this on a very different level, almost psychological. I went to a pain-management guy whose idea was, 'You can't mourn for how you used to feel, because you're never going to feel that way again.' Meaning, you wake up with the worst hangover ever, and that's your day, and you have to come to terms with it."