Emilia Clark’s cerebral aneurysm
Emilia Clark filmed the battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019 she published an essay in New Yorker, entitled “A Battle for My Life.”
She suffered a terrible headache at the gym and “when she reached the bathroom and collapsed from her knees, it made her feel severe, terrible,” the actress wrote. “In the meantime, the pain was getting worse with running, stinging, tight pain. On one level, I knew what was going on. It was a brain injury.”
She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) was a life-threatening type of stroke caused by hemorrhage into the perience brain space,” the Emmy nominee added. “I had an aneurysm or an artery rupture.”
Emilia immediately underwent surgery to block an aneurysm, claiming “unbearable pain.” She went on to experience aphasia while recovering and “tweeted things that were meaningless,” she continued.
A week later, “My aphasia has subsided,” Emilia added, and was discharged a month after she was admitted.
A 2013 brain scan found out that she was “double size” and needed surgery again.
“When they woke me up, I was screaming in pain,” she wrote. “The surgery failed. I had a lot of bleeding. The doctors have stated that without surgery again, my chances of survival are at stake. This time, I had to access my brain through the old-fashioned method, through the skull.”
Thankfully, Emilia said she is now “in 100%.”
