Game of Thrones Emilia Clarke explains how she almost lost her life

Emilia Clarke revealed that she has survived two life-threatening aneurysms. She explained that the health scares began just after the success of the first season of Game of Thrones. She said; “Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.”

The role marked her first major acting credit. While her character, Daenerys Targaryen, has been described as a mix of Napoleon, Joan of Arc and Lawrence of Arabia, Clarke wrote that she “hardly felt like a conquering spirit” when it came time to promote the first season.

“I was terrified. Terrified of the attention, terrified of a business I barely understood, terrified of trying to make good on the faith that the creators of Thrones had put in me. I felt, in every way, exposed,” she wrote.

The actress said that prior to Game of Thrones, she considered herself a healthy person. “Sometimes I got a little light-headed, because I often had low blood pressure and a low heart rate. Once in a while, I’d get dizzy and pass out,” she wrote.

“When I was fourteen, I had a migraine that kept me in bed for a couple of days, and in drama school I’d collapse once in a while. But it all seemed manageable, part of the stress of being an actor and of life in general. Now I think that I might have been experiencing warning signs of what was to come.”

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