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ROME – Actor George Clooney was taken to a hospital in Sardinia and released after being involved in an accident while riding his motorcycle, hospital officials said.

“He is recovering at his home and will be fine,” Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press in an email.

The John Paul II hospital in Olbia said Clooney was released Tuesday. Local media people who had gathered at the hospital said Clooney is believed to have left through a side exit.

Local daily La Nuova Sardegna said Clooney, 57, had been headed to a film set on Tuesday when his motorbike was hit by a car. Private Mediaset, citing gossip magazine Chi, said the accident occurred near Costa Corallina.

Clooney has a home on the Italian mainland, on Lake Como.

Jada Pinkett Smith discusses history of sex, alcohol addiction

In a new episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk” Facebook Watch series, the actress is characteristically candid when discussing her history of addictions, including sex, alcohol and fitness.

“My sort of addictions jump, they jump around,” the actress says in the episode. “When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex.”

As for her struggles with drinking, “I remember reaching a rock bottom that time I was in the house by myself and I had those two bottles of wine and was going for the third bottle,” she says. “And I was like, ‘Now hold up. You’re in this house by yourself going onto your third bottle of wine? You might have a problem.’ ”

“So I went cold turkey,” she continued.