HBO series Game of Thrones’ star Emilia Clarke recently opened up about the two brain aneurysms she suffered while filming the show.
Emilia Clarke revealed she’s missing quite a bit from her brain now.
The ‘Game of Thrones’ star underwent life-saving surgery after she had two instances of ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain in 2011 and 2013.
A brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall, usually where it branches.
In conversation with BBC One’s Sunday Morning, Ms Clarke revealed that she had survived two brain aneurysms in 2011 and 2013.
“I hilariously kept saying lines from the show in my head. If you are throwing up and you have a headache, that is not good for your brain.
“I was 22 [when she had the first aneurysm] but it was helpful having ‘Game of Thrones’ to sweep me up and give me that purpose.
“The amount of my brain that is no longer usable – it’s remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions.
“I am in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that.”
The 35-year-old actor said, “The amount of my brain that is no longer usable – it’s remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions.”
In 2019, the Game of Thrones actor even created a charity for brain injury and stroke victims called ‘SameYou’.
