by Emilia Clarke’s Brain Aneurysm
Emilia Clarke filmed combat scenes for Game of Thrones, But in 2019 she published an essay The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.”
Because I had a bad headache in the gym, “I reached the toilet, sank on my knees and went violent, voluminous sick,” the actress wrote. “In the meantime, the pain – shooting, stabbing, limiting pain – got worse. I knew what happened at a certain level: my brains were damaged.”
She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid bleeding (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding in space around the brain,” added the Emmy nominated. “I had an aneurysm, an arterial break.”
Emilia was immediately operated on to seal the aneurysm and called the pain ‘unbearable’. As she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and muttered ‘nonsense’.
A week later, “the aphasia passed,” Emilia added, and she left the hospital a month after she was admitted.
During a brain scan of 2013, she learned a growth “doubled in size” and that she again needed surgery.
“When they woke me up, I screamed with pain,” she wrote. “The procedure had failed. I had an enormous bleeding and the doctors made it clear that my chances of surviving were precarious if they no longer operated. This time they had to gain access to my brain-through my skull in the old-fashioned way.”
Fortunately, Emilia has shared, she is now ‘by one hundred percent’.
