Emilia Clarke, popular for playing Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones, has opened up to live after two brain aneurysms. The actress survived a health scare twice while filming for the popular series GoT and also shared some never-before-seen photos from the hospital as she opened up about her brain aneurysm. Now, Clarke elaborates on how she’s living after her surgery. She insisted that she was ‘missing parts of her brain’.
Clarke opens up on brain aneurysms
In an interview with the BBC, Clark shared how she is living after her brain aneurysm, a bulge in a blood vessel in the brain. If it bursts it can cause fatal internal bleeding. Clark said, “The volume of my brain that is no longer usable – it is remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally without any influence.” . I’m a really, really, really small minority. The people who can avoid it.”
Clarke says ‘part of his brain is missing’
Clarke also shared the details of how she felt after the surgery with her brain scans and watching them. “Quite lacking, which always makes me laugh. Because stroke, basically, as soon as any part of your brain doesn’t get blood for even a second, it’s gone. And so the blood has to go around.” finds a different route but then whatever is missing is gone,” he added.
Back in 2019, Clarke shared never-before-seen images of her in the hospital, talking about the difficult road to recovery after an aneurysm.
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Clark’s future projects
Following the success of Game of Thrones, Clarke was cast in the MCU series Secret Invasion. The original series for Disney Plus also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn and Kingsley Ben-Adir. It will revolve around a group of shape-shifting aliens who have been infiltrating the Earth for years. Ben-Adir will play the main villain and Jackson will reprise his role as Nick Fury.
In addition, Clark will also appear in the science-fiction comedy film The Pod Generation with Chiwetel Ejiofor. She is currently starring in a two-and-a-half-hour theater adaptation of The Seagull.
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