Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms
To summarize...
She had an aneurism after season 1 wrapped. Had brain surgery and suffered aphasia. Spent season 2 recovering and taking morphine. At one point she was taking morphine in between press interviews just to function. The surgery after season 3 failed and she had a second aneurism. They did another major surgery and removed parts of her skull and replaced them with titanium plates and stopped the bleed on her brain. When she went to comicon once she had had surgery only weeks before and spent the whole event suffering an excruciating headache and thinking she was going to die at any second. Then after the event she did an interview with MTV because, and I quote, "if I'm going to go it might as well be on live television."
And she worked during this ordeal. And kept it private. She's ****ing amazing.