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On Game of Thrones,
Emilia Clarke walked through
fire and lived. In real life,
she survived two potentially
deadly aneurysms
BY JEANNIE NUSS
PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES
In
2011, shortly after Emilia Clarke
finished shooting her first season
as Daenerys Targaryen on the
HBO series Game of Thrones, she went to a
gym in London to work out-and promptly
had a terrible headache.
"When I started my workout, I had to force
myself through the first few exercises," Clarke
wrote in a piece for The New Yorker. "Then my
trainer had me get into the plank position, and
I immediately felt as though an elastic band
were squeezing my brain."
Clarke, only 24 years old at the time, was
rushed to a hospital, where an MRI showed
that an aneurysm-or a weak, bulging spot in
an artery-had ruptured in her brain, leading
to a type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or SAH.
"As I later learned, about a third of SAH
patients die immediately or soon thereafter,"
Clarke wrote in The New Yorker. "For the
patients who do survive, urgent treatment is
required to seal off the aneurysm, as there is a
very high risk of a second, often fatal bleed."
Clarke was transported to another
hospital, where she underwent surgery.
Within weeks, she was back on the set of
Game of Thrones.
While she was in the hospital, Clarke
learned that she had a second brain aneurysm. "The doctors said, though, that it was
small and it was possible it would remain dormant and harmless indefinitely," Clarke wrote
in The New Yorker.
Things changed in 2013 when a brain scan
showed that Clarke's growth had doubled in
size. So she had surgery again.
"In the years since my second surgery,"
she wrote in The New Yorker, "I have healed
beyond my most unreasonable hopes."
Hope Amid Stark Realities
Not everyone who has a ruptured brain
aneurysm is so fortunate.
An estimated 6.5 million people in the
United States, or about 1 in 50 people, have
an unruptured brain aneurysm, and each
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