George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend loved him like a dad. In a new book by an Italian journalist released this week, Elisabetta Canalis, 33, reveals that her two-year romance with Clooney wasn’t much of a romance. “Between us there was more of a father-daughter relationship,” says Canalis of the actor, who is 17 years her senior. “[He] has been very special for me, as a father would be.”
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