'Maybe he didn't want lice': Jennifer Garner jokes about why George Clooney failed to invite her to his wedding

by party animal - not! Thu 02 Oct 2014, 18:02

Jennifer Garner on why they weren't invited....

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'Maybe he didn't want lice': Jennifer Garner jokes about why George Clooney failed to invite her to his wedding

Jennifer Garner had head lice when she first met George Clooney.

The 42-year-old actress - who has children Violet, eight, Seraphnia, five, and Samuel, two, with husband Ben Affleck - had been trying to rid her family of the pesky parasites ones evening when her husband insisted they attend a Hollywood party.

And she admits the first impression she gave the Monuments Men star wasn't great because she gave off a distinctive pungent smell from the chemical treatment she had put on her hair.

Garner related the anecdote while appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.

The actress slipped into a snug LBD for the occasion as she recalled: 'We all got lice. It's making me itchy just to talk about it. This was years ago.

'They have people like the Lice Lady, and they come over and they comb painstakingly through your hair, and then they put something on your hair...It looks like the put Crisco in your hair but you smell a little bit like a mixture of sulfur and rosemary. And you do it everyday for a month!

'Ben had gone early and he'd showered. He came out and he said, 'Hey, um, there's a party. I wanna go. Let's go.' And I said, "I can't. I need to shower." I mean, I'm in, like, cargo pants. I'm nasty in a thousand [ways]. He's like, "Come on! I mean, we have a babysitter. I want you to come with me."

'So, I get in the car and I go with him because he acted like I was going to be high maintenance. I don't ever want to be called high maintenance. I am not a high maintenance chick! So I'm like, "What's the big deal? No one's gonna notice."

'We show up and the first person I see is George Clooney, and I'd never met George Clooney. I was kind of like, "Ah, he's so handsome! Like, oh, my God!" So, I see him and I walk up to him and I'm chatting with him, just trying to act like it's cool...and I can see that he smells me, you know? But he's trying to be polite.'

And the star jokingly claimed her lice problem was the reason why she and her husband weren't at George's wedding to Amal Alamuddin in Venice, Italy, over the weekend.

Speaking to talk show host Jimmy Fallon, she laughed: 'So, anyway, people keep asking why we weren't at George's wedding and we were both "working" but I think he didn't want Licey there. He's like, "No, we don't need the Afflecks. We're OK!"'

Meanwhile, last week the star spoke about motherhood during a press conference for Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

According to People, the star does not see herself as a supermom: 'No. But the absolute [greatest] thing about being a parent is that every day is a fresh start.'

'You always can say, "Today we're going to try this!" And if it goes horribly, you can say, "Today we're throwing that out, and we're trying this!" That's part of what I like about being a mom in general.'

Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day co-stars Steve Carrell and hits theatres October 10.

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by Doug Ross Thu 02 Oct 2014, 18:44

I love Jennifer ahahahahah