Emilia Clarke suffered two brain aneurysms while filming the HBO series
star of game of Thrones (2011), Emilia Clarke opened up about the experience of suffering two brain aneurysms, thanking him for the recovery after losing “a part” of the organ. In an interview with the program Sunday Morning gives BBC (via Variety), the actress recalled the situation:
“It was the most excruciating pain I’ve ever felt,” he said. During the series of HBO, Clarke suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms, the first in 2011 and the second in 2013. Both required a long period of recovery. “It was incredibly important to have game of Thrones helping me and giving me a purpose.”
“There’s a big part of my brain that is no longer used – it’s amazing that I’m still able to speak, sometimes articulate, and live my completely normal life with absolutely no repercussions,” he said. “I’m in a very, very, very small portion of minorities that managed to survive this.”
Clarke also recalled when he saw brain scans after the incident. “There was a piece missing,” she said, laughing. “Which always makes me laugh… In a stroke, basically, as soon as any part of your brain doesn’t get blood for a second, it disappears. So the blood finds a different route to move around, but then whatever part is missing disappears,” she explained.
Since then, the actress has created a donation fund for victims of brain injuries and strokes called SamYou, although she has put her own medical problems behind her and accepted her current health condition. “I thought, ‘Well, this is who you are. This is the brain you have.’ So it makes no sense to continually rack your brain thinking about what might not be there,” she stated.
Source: Rollingstone
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