Emilia Clarke shared that her brain aneurysms altered her 'sense of self' and heightened her insecurities. The 'Game of Thrones' star had two brain surgeries, in 2011 and 2013.
Emilia Clarke opened up about life after her brain surgery and how the injury altered her 'sense of self.' The 37-year-old actress had two brain surgeries, one in 2011 and another in 2013, after suffering brain aneurysms. 'When you have a brain injury, because it alters your sense of self on such a dramatic level, all of the insecurities you have going into the workplace quadruple overnight,' Clarke told U.K.'s Big Issue.
Clarke explained she often worried she would suffer another brain hemorrhage while filming or while appearing on TV. 'Well, if I’m going to die, I better die on live TV,' she recalled thinking. Clarke suffered her first aneurysm in 2011, shortly after the actress wrapped filming on the hit HBO show 'Game of Thrones.' In 2013, a surgery to remove another aneurysm doctors had found failed and Clarke was left with a brain bleed.
spent a month in the hospital again and, at certain points, I lost all hope,' Clarke wrote in an essay for the New Yorker. 'I couldn’t look anyone in the eye. There was terrible anxiety, panic attacks. I was raised never to say, ‘It’s not fair’; I was taught to remember that there is always someone who is worse off than you. But, going through this experience for the second time, all hope receded.' 'I felt like a shell of myself,' she added.
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