

“I was able to speak.”īut in 2013, the “Me Before You” star was faced with another aneurism that needed to be treated through surgery. “I was sent back to the ICU, and after about a week, the aphasia passed,” she wrote. Without that, I was lost.” Clarke opened up about her health journey in a 2019 essay, “A Battle For My Life.” Dave Benett/Getty Images for AleĪfter fighting through these dark moments, Clarke was able to come out on the other side since the aphasia was temporary. My job - my entire dream of what my life would be - centered on language, on communication. “I asked the medical staff to let me die. “In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug,” she continued. “I was suffering from a condition called aphasia, a consequence of the trauma my brain had suffered,” she wrote in a 2019 essay for The New Yorker. Emilia Clarke suffered her first aneurism shortly after wrapping up Season 1 of “Game of Thrones.” HBOĭue to the health scare, the “Solo: A Star Wars Story” star had to undergo brain surgery that resulted in her being unable to remember her name. Just after she finished filming the critically acclaimed HBO show’s first season in 2011, Clarke suffered her first aneurysm, which also led to a stroke and a subarachnoid hemorrhage. And so the blood finds a different route to get around, but then whatever bit it’s missing is therefore gone.” Because strokes, basically, as soon as any part of your brain doesn’t get blood for a second, it’s gone. “There’s quite a bit missing! Which always makes me laugh. “I am in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that,” she added. “The amount of my brain that is no longer usable - it’s remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions,” the 35-year-old actress said on BBC One’s “Sunday Morning.” Emilia Clarke told off a facialist who said she ‘needed fillers’ at 28Įmilia Clarke revealed she is missing “quite a bit” of her brain after suffering two aneurysms during her time on “Game of Thrones.”
