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Emilia Clarke almost died whilst filming Game of Thrones

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Emilia Clarke suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms whilst filming ‘Game of Thrones’.
March 21 2019 8:29 PM
Emilia Clarke suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms whilst filming ‘Game of Thrones’.
The 32-year-old actress – who stars as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy drama – has revealed that she almost died in 2011, after doctors discovered she had two aneurysms in her brain.
Emilia says that following the first season of the ‘Game of Thrones’, she decided to unwind by working out with a trainer, but began suffering from “constricting pain” in her head.
Writing in an essay for The New Yorker entitled ‘A Battle for My Life’, she said: „On the morning of February 11,2011, I was getting dressed in the locker room of a gym in Crouch End, North London, when I started to feel a bad headache coming on. I was so fatigued that I could barely put on my sneakers. When I started my workout, I had to force myself through the first few exercises.
„Then my trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t. I told my trainer I had to take a break. Somehow, almost crawling, I made it to the locker room. I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain – shooting, stabbing, constricting pain – was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”
From the gym, Emilia was taken to hospital and given an MRI scan, which showed she had a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.
She continued: „As I later learned, about a third of SAH patients die immediately or soon thereafter.

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