Emilia Clark’s cerebral aneurysm
Emilia Clark filmed the Game of Thrones battle scenes, but in 2019 she published an essay in New Yorker entitled “The Battle for My Life.”
With a bad headache at the gym, “I got to the bathroom, sank in my knee, and got severe, immensely ill,” the actress wrote. “On the other hand, the pain — shooting, stabing, contracting the pain — got worse. On one level, I knew what was going on. My brain was damaged.”
She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.
“The diagnosis was quick and ominous. Sakuracnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding in the space surrounding the brain,” added Candidate Emmy. “I had an aneurysm and an artery rupture.”
Emilia had immediate surgery to seal the aneurysm, calling the pain “unbearable.” While she was recovering, she went on to say that she had experienced aphasia and “tweeted nonsense.”
A week later, “My aphasia passed away,” Emilia added, leaving the hospital a month after being admitted.
A 2013 brain scan taught her growth that “doubled in size” and she learned that surgery was needed again.
“When they woke me up, I was screaming in pain,” she wrote. “The procedure failed. I had a lot of bleeding and the doctors made it clear that if they didn’t work again, it was unstable that they could survive. This time I had to access my brain in the old fashioned way.
Thankfully, Emilia shared, she is now “100%.”
