Game of Thrones: Emilia Clarke's brain surgery operation

A Game of Thrones star revealed that she had to undergo brain surgery between two seasons of the hit series.

Emilia Clarke wrote in The New Yorker that she was suffering from two "life-threatening" aneurysms.

The actor, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, has been operated on twice, which has caused "terrible anxiety" and panic attacks.

Although thinking that she would die, Clarke has now recovered beyond her "most unreasonable hopes".

The actress, a native of Oxford in southeastern England, portrays the role of a young princess bridal, whom she describes as "a figure of power." and self-possession ".

Clarke had her first aneurysm in 2011. She had trained before collapsing in a restroom with "shooting, throbbing, contracting pain."

The doctors diagnosed him with subarachnoid hemorrhage, one-third of whom died immediately or shortly afterwards.

After the operation, a disease called Aphasia was installed, meaning that she could not communicate and feared that her acting career was over.

"In my worst moments, I wanted to unplug," she said. "I asked the medical staff to let me die."

She has recovered enough to return to the shooting of Game of Thrones Season 2 but says, "I was often so naive, so weak, that I thought I was going to die."

In 2013, while she was performing in New York for a play, she was operated on for a second aneurysm on the other side of her brain.

This operation was much more intrusive, which meant that his skull had to be opened.

"I had the impression of having gone through a more horrible war than all the Daenerys," Clarke said.

Her play in The New Yorker is the first time she's talking about her experience.

She says she is now "one hundred percent" and that she has helped to develop a charity that helps recovering people recover from a brain injury or injury. a cerebral vascular accident.