Emilia Clarke says she?s ?cheated death? after surviving two brain aneurysms, with the first one taking place after she had just finished filming the first season of ?Game of Thrones.?
In a lengthy op-ed for The New Yorker, Clarke explained that she started working out with a trainer to relieve stress from the attention she was about to get from her starring role as Daenerys Targaryen. During a workout in London, she ?felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain,? and she started 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,? she wrote. ?For a few moments, I tried to will away the pain and the nausea. I said to myself, ?I will not be paralyzed.? I moved my fingers and toes to make sure that was true.
?Meanwhile, the pain?shooting, stabbing, constricting pain?was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged,? she wrote. ?For a few moments, I tried to will away the pain and the nausea. I said to myself, ?I will not be paralyzed.? I moved my fingers and toes to make sure that was true.
