Last month, the Game of Thrones actress, Emilia Clarke, discovered that shortly after the end of the first season of the series, she suffered two aneurysms in the brain that for a few took her life.
In an essay for The New Yorker, Emilia explained that in 2011 she was operated shortly after being diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage - an ischemia from which one-third of the patients lose their lives.
"I had never experienced such anxiety - a close feeling coming close. I saw my life waiting for me and it was not worth living. I'm an actress, I have to memorize the script. And suddenly I can not remember my name either. In the worst moments, I wanted to give up. I begged the doctors to let me die. My work - the whole life I dreamed of - spun around language, communication. Without it, I was lost, "the actress writes.
Emilia returned to work six weeks later and it seemed as if she would die "every minute of every day."
"I told the bosses in the serial, but I would not go back to the conversation object. The show must continue. The second season was worse for me. I did not know what Daenerys was doing. To be honest, that season, every minute I seemed to be dying, "she writes.
In an interview with CBS This Morning, Emilia spoke further of what she had learned and shared with the followers some photos unpublished earlier in the difficult moments.
The photos were made during the treatment of the first brain aneurysm in 2011.
During the interview, Emilia shows how the first aneurysm occurred. "I was in the gym and I felt terrible pain, as if a garter was torn in my head. I felt a lot of pressure and suddenly, but very soon, I realized I could not stand and I could not walk. At that moment I realized that my brain was damaged, "she said.
Emilia added: "With the second aneurysm, I died a part of the brain. If a part of the brain is not supplied with the brain for a minute, it simply stops working. It's like a short circuit. It followed a profound paranoia. 'What if something has been damaged in my brain and can no longer act?' For this I live, for acting. "
