Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is on top of the world as millions of fans anxiously await the last season of the HBO show. But in a new essay, the actress revealed that she had multiple brain surgeries during the early seasons of the series because she had two brain aneurysms. Click through the gallery for all the info.
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Emilia, 32, was cast in the fantasy series with very little previous acting experience. But her Hollywood dreams were almost derailed by her two aneurysms.
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The Brit continued to film the show and go on press tour despite the major pain she was in during her treatment and recovery.
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“Staying at a hotel in London during a publicity tour, I vividly remember thinking, I can’t keep up or think or breathe, much less try to be charming,” she wrote in
The New Yorker.
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“I sipped on morphine in between interviews. The pain was there, and the fatigue was like the worst exhaustion I’d ever experienced, multiplied by a million,” she explained.
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She was worried about the lasting effects of the surgeries and the things she might lose. “Would it be concentration? Memory? Peripheral vision? Now I tell people that what it robbed me of is good taste in men. But, of course, none of this seemed remotely funny at the time,” Emilia wrote.
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She now says she’s “at a hundred percent.” Emilia has also started a charity for people who are recovering from brain surgery and strokes.
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Emilia, 32, was cast in the fantasy series with very little previous acting experience. But her Hollywood dreams were almost derailed by her two aneurysms.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
The Brit continued to film the show and go on press tour despite the major pain she was in during her treatment and recovery.
“Staying at a hotel in London during a publicity tour, I vividly remember thinking, I can’t keep up or think or breathe, much less try to be charming,” she wrote in
The New Yorker.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“I sipped on morphine in between interviews. The pain was there, and the fatigue was like the worst exhaustion I’d ever experienced, multiplied by a million,” she explained.
She was worried about the lasting effects of the surgeries and the things she might lose. “Would it be concentration? Memory? Peripheral vision? Now I tell people that what it robbed me of is good taste in men. But, of course, none of this seemed remotely funny at the time,” Emilia wrote.
She now says she’s “at a hundred percent.” Emilia has also started a charity for people who are recovering from brain surgery and strokes.
Photo credit: Getty Images
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