The property of $*$-cleanness in group rings has been studied for some groups considering the classical involution, given by $g^*=g^{-1}$. A group is called an SLC-group if its quotient by its center is isomorphic to the Klein group; these groups are equipped with its own canonical involution, which usually does not coincide with the classical one. In this paper we study the $*$-cleanness of $RG$ when $G$ is an SLC-group, considering $*$ as its canonical involution. In that context, we prove that if $RG$ is $*$-clean then $G$ is the direct product of $Q_8$ and an abelian group with some extra properties and we find a converse for some specific cases, generalizing a result by Gao, Chen and Li for $Q_8$.