Emilia Clarke goes public with brain aneurysm battles to help others

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Instead of basking in the success of Season 1 of the global HBO hit Game Of Thrones (GOT), Emilia Clarke found herself in hospital battling a life-threatening condition. Then only 24, the English actress had scored one of the prime roles of the decade on a TV show, that of...

"The main reason I said it was because of the charity that I've started. I truly believe I can help people because this is what brain injury looks like. Someone can see that and think, 'Oh, if the Mother of Dragons can do it, then so can I.'"A brain scan revealed a subarachnoid haemorrhage, a type of stroke caused by bleeding in the brain. Surgery was a success, but there were side effects such as memory loss that made her panic-stricken that she would lose her career.

After a month in the hospital, battling pain and anxiety attacks, she recovered again, still struggling with debilitating headaches and fearing for her life. Clarke said:"In my experience, there was a huge gap between hospital and home. You spend a lot of your time in hospital where everyone is telling you you're ill, you're going to die, you should be scared.

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