Emilia Clarke shares never-before-seen images from her hospitalisation

Emilia Clarke has released unseen photographs taken during her recovery from a life-threatening brain aneurysm in 2011, when she was just 24 years old. 

The Game Of Thrones star recently told of how she suffered and survived two brain aneurysms while filming the fantasy drama, the second of which nearly killed her.  

Emilia, now 32, made an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning where she recalled the dark place she went to after her surgery, and shared images from her hospital stay.

Discussing the impact it had not just on her physical health but mental wellbeing, she revealed: 'The first time it was difficult, with the second one I found it much harder to stay optimistic. 

'[I coped with it as a] a day to day thing. I definitely went through a period of being... down - putting it mildly.'

Emilia explained that when a part of your brain is starved of blood for more than a minute it dies, which is what happened to her after her second aneurysm.

She recalled: 'So, they [the doctors] literally were looking at the brain and being like, 'Well, we think it could be – could be her concentration, it could be her peripheral vision,' she said.

'I always say it's my taste in men,' she joked. 

'For a very long time, I thought it was my ability to act…that was a deep paranoia.'





MailOnline