

The Game Of Thrones actress concluded by saying that these incidents led her to take up another passion besides acting - helping people recovering from brain injuries and stroke through a charity she helped develop called SameYou. Fans were shocked when, in the final episodes of the HBO series, Daenerys descended into madness and became the villain of the story. Bits of my skull had been replaced by titanium,” she wrote. Daenerys was the focal point of many controversial moments within Game of Thrones, from her rather degrading season 1 beginnings to her entire season 8 storyline. And the operation had to happen immediately.”Ĭlarke said that the procedure left her looking as though she had “been through a war more gruesome than any that Daenerys experienced.” But she added, “I emerged from the operation with a drain coming out of my head. She noted, “This time they needed to access my brain in an old-fashioned way - through my skull. After undergoing a brain scan, Emilia Clarke said she was told that she had the growth on the side of her brain – that she became aware of during her first hospital stay had, “doubled in size” and required surgery. The Game Of Thrones actress added that she suffered a second brain aneurysm in 2013 while in New York for a play she was in. She travels around getting into fights and ends up in the fighting. Dimension (Shipping Box) : Carton 1/3 (Daenerys, Chair, 2 Stool, Pillar bottom) : Approx. About 15 per cent of people who had a brain aneurysm die before reaching the hospital. Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons (Game of Thrones). Now I couldn’t recall my name.” According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, aneurysms are fatal in about 40 per cent of cases and of those who survive, just over 60 per cent suffer a permanent neurological deficit.

I am an actor I need to remember my lines. I could see my life ahead, and it wasn’t worth living. A little over 300 years prior to the events of Thrones season 8, Westeros was a sprawling continent run by various warring factions led by different kings.Then, Jon's true namesake Aegon Targaryen. The Game Of Thrones actress added that over the next month, she was hospitalized and suffered from vision issues, “unbearable” pain, and memory loss.Įmilia Clarke revealed, “I’d never experienced fear like that - a sense of doom closing in.

It also revealed that the treatment would need a “minimally invasive” surgery that did not require doctors to cut open her skull. In her note to the publication, she added she was diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.
