Emilia Clarke shares never-before-seen photos of herself after brain surgery
'There was a bit of my brain that actually died,' actress says
'There was a bit of my brain that actually died,' actress says
'There was a bit of my brain that actually died,' actress says
In March, Emilia Clarke shared an essay written for The New Yorker on how she survived while filming HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones."
Now, less than a week away from the series' final season, Clarke opened up to "" with new details on her brain injury, as well as never-before-seen photos from after her brain surgeries.
In the CBS interview, Clarke recalled the day in February 2011 when her first aneurysm ruptured.
"Basically I was in the gym, the most excruciating pain, like an elastic band just went, like, snap in my head," she said. "An enormous amount of pressure suddenly, and then very very very quickly, I realized I couldn't stand and I couldn't walk, and in that moment I knew I was being brain damaged."
Clarke suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding in the space that surrounds the brain. But miraculously, Clarke was back to work on season two of "Game of Thrones" just six weeks later.
Two years after that, Clarke was back in the hospital with another aneurysm 바카라 게임 웹사이트 and this time, it almost killed her, she said.
"With the second one, there was a bit of my brain that actually died," she said, explaining, "If part of your brain doesn't get blood to it for a minute, it will just no longer work. It's like you short circuit. So I had that."
Clarke said that her greatest fear after her second stroke was that she had lost the ability to act.
"That was a deep paranoia, from the first one as well. I was like, 'What if something has short-circuited in my brain and I can't act anymore?' I mean, literally it's been my reason for living for a very long time," Clarke said.
Her recovery period from her second brain surgery was also more difficult than her first 바카라 게임 웹사이트 both mentally and physically.
"With the second one, I found it much harder to stay optimistic," she said. "I definitely went through a period of being down, to put it mildly."
But Clarke's character on "Game of Thrones" 바카라 게임 웹사이트 Daenerys Targaryen 바카라 게임 웹사이트 helped her through the toughest times.
"You go on set and you play a bad*** and you walk through fire, and that became the thing that saved me from considering my own mortality," she said.
As of now, Clarke is "completely in the clear," and she's putting all of her energy into getting her new charity, , a charity that focuses on neurorehabilitation, off the ground.
"I really, really am going to put my heart (and) soul back into transforming aftercare for brain injury recovery," Clarke said.