Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysm
Emilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for game of thrones, but in 2019 she published an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life”.
With a bad headache at the gym, “I reached the bathroom, dropped to my knees and continued to be violently, extensively ill,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. On some level, I knew what was happening: My brain was damaged.”
She was taken to hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding in the space surrounding the brain,” added the Emmy nominee. “I had had one aneurysman arterial rupture.”
Emilia immediately underwent surgery to seal the aneurysm and called the pain “excruciating”. While recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and “mumbled nonsense.”
A week later, “avasi passed,” Emilia added, and she left the hospital a month after being admitted.
At a brain scan in 2013, she learned a growth “doubled in size” and that she needed surgery again.
“When they woke me up, I screamed in pain,” she wrote. “The procedure had failed. I was bleeding profusely and the doctors made it clear that my chances of survival were uncertain unless they operated again. This time they needed access my brain the old-fashioned way — through my skull.”
Thankfully, Emilia said, she is now “one hundred percent”.
