Like Daenerys Targaryen, the actress Emilia Clarke (35 years old) has also experienced his own struggles. Precisely battle, this is the word he chose in a piece written in the first person and published in March 2019 for the New Yorkerwhere the actress revealed that she suffered two aneurysms after the first season of Game Of Thronesearly 2011. In a recent interview for the BBC One program Sunday morning, The actress returned to talk about the experience she had more than 10 years ago with some astonishment, explaining that she lacks “a lot” of brain: “With the amount of brain that I disabled , it’s amazing that I’m able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life quite normally without any repercussions.”
“I belong to a very, very, very small minority of people who survive this,” the actress added. ” Miss a lot [cerebro]! Sometimes it even makes me laugh. In strokes, basically, as soon as part of the brain doesn’t get blood for a second, there’s no blood. And so the blood finds another route to move, but then whatever’s missing, it’s gone.”
In her 2019 article, the interpreter revealed the stress she was under after the broadcast of the first season of the series, where she had gone, overnight, from a complete stranger to one of the most famous on television. A success that, at first, was not clear how to manage: “I was terrified. Terrified of the attention, of a job she barely understood, of living up to the trust that the creators of Game Of Thrones they had put in me. I felt, in every way, exposed. In the first episode I appeared naked and from there I always asked myself the same question: ‘You play a strong woman and yet you take off your clothes. Because? How many men must I kill to prove my worth? A situation made worse by realizing that she had started to become a role model for the youngest – “girls dressed in wigs and platinum blonde dresses to be Daenerys” -.
It was during a session with a personal trainer that the actress began to feel a strong pressure in her head. A few minutes later, he passed out in the locker room. “A cloud of unconsciousness settled over me. Since no one knew what was wrong with me, the doctors and nurses couldn’t give me pain medicine. Finally, they did an MRI, a brain scan. The diagnosis was quick and worrying: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain. I had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture,” said the actress. And he had to undergo a first operation.
As she confessed in the same text and in subsequent interviews, the worst thing for her was to suffer from an episode of aphasia, a language disorder characterized by the inability or difficulty to communicate through speech: “From my mouth absurd words came out and I panicked. I had never known such fear. I saw my life scrolling by and it wasn’t worth living. I’m an actress, I need to remember my texts, and now I can’t even remember my name.
Fortunately, the doctors managed to find the problem in time and the actress was able to recover before starting to shoot the second season of the hit HBO series. “It was like, ‘Really, it’s something very small, I’m fine’, he recalled in April 2019 in the CBS program Sunday morning. “And yes, he was definitely much better, six weeks later he was on set.” However, another aneurysm was discovered for which she had to be operated on two years later. The recovery process from the first operation was “difficult, but the second was much more difficult”, Clarke confessed. “I went through a period where I was really weak, really, but you come on set and you have to play this huge woman, and you have to go through the fire. I think that saved me from ruminating on my mortality .”
Since then, Emilia Clarke has combined her acting career with her philanthropic work through the charity she created herself, called Like youwhich aims to provide treatment for people recovering from brain injury in the UK and US.