Emilia Clarke, while shooting the hit HBO drama game of Thrones, Believing he had “cheated death”.
At that time he had suffered brain hemorrhage twice.
visible on How to fail in Elizabeth Day Podcast, Clark says, “I was just convinced that I had cheated death and I was going to die. Every day, that’s all I could think about.”
He suffered his first brain hemorrhage while working out at a gym in London.
“The closest thing to describe it is to imagine an elastic band going around your brain,” she explains. “This crazy pressure.”
“At that moment, I knew my brain was being damaged,” the actress recalls.
At that time, Clark was cast game of Thrones.
However, fears over her role in the show immediately surfaced after the actress’s health suddenly deteriorated.
“I was very ashamed that this had happened and that the people who hired me thought I was weak or saw me as something that could be broken.”
Then, years later, a second hemorrhage occurred.
At that time, Clark was cast in a Broadway show. But this time the actress suffered more emotionally.
“The biggest thing that happened to me with the second brain hemorrhage was that I shut down emotionally,” she explains.
Clark founded the brain injury recovery charity SemU in 2019, following his horrific experiences.
