Emilia Clarke had to undergo two surgeries and for a time she was left with aphasia, which prevented her from communicating through speech.
After suffering two aneurysms, in 2011 and 2013, which had her on the verge of death, actress Emilia Clarke, recognized for her participation in the successful series "Game of Thrones", recognizes that being alive and working again is a miracle. especially because his brain “lacks a lot of mass.”
Recognized for fighting great battles with her character of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO production, Emilia spoke with the BBC program “One Sunday Morning” about what her recovery process was like, in which “Game of Thrones” had a lot to do with it. ”.
“With the amount of brain I have disabled, it is incredible that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions,” the 35-year-old actress reiterated.
“I belong to a very, very, very small minority of people who survive that,” said the artist who currently stars in the play “The Seagull” in London's West End.
“In strokes, basically, as soon as any part of the brain doesn't get blood for a second, it goes away. And so, the blood finds a different route to move, but then whatever is missing disappears,” said the actress, adding that she still gets frequent and “unbearable” headaches.
Recovery with Game of Thrones
The artist thanked the producers and her Game of Thrones castmates for what they invested in a rehabilitation process for her motor and intellectual functions.
“It was incredibly helpful that ‘Game of Thrones’ helped me and gave me that purpose,” she said during another interview with BBC’s “Sunday Morning.”
She also spoke of the trauma she experienced after the broadcast of the first season of the series, because overnight she went from being an unknown woman to a public figure recognized in many parts of the world.
“I felt, in every way, exposed, especially because in the first episode I appeared naked,” she admitted.
The cardiovascular accident
Emilia Clarke remembers that her first fainting occurred during a session with a personal trainer after a severe headache after which she lost consciousness.
After several medical evaluations, she received a panicking diagnosis: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a type of life-threatening stroke caused by bleeding into the space around the brain. “I had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture,” said the actress. And she had to undergo a first operation.
She recovered and six months after the episode she was able to record the second season of Game of Thrones, despite having suffered from aphasia, a language disorder characterized by the inability or difficulty to communicate through speech.
