Actress Emilia Clarke reveals that she has suffered not one but two brain aneurysms requiring surgery

Actress Emilia Clarke reveals that she has suffered not one but two brain aneurysms requiring surgery, the second one being even more serious than the first and requiring brain surgery through the skull. Some parts of her skull have had to be replaced with titanium because of it. Just today, an internet article for the magazine, The New Yorker caught my eye regarding this. Emilia Clarke wrote the revealing article herself, explaining that it was the year 2010 and she was only 24 years old when she began to have these terrible struggles with her health.

Emilia Clarke gave a brief autobiography regarding the rest of her life as background for this piece in The New Yorker magazine. She explains that while her parents were not incredibly wealthy, she and her brother were able to attend private schools in England and she has known that she wanted to be an actress since the age of three or four years old. She was finding new found fame in auditioning and landing a role in the HBO show Game of Thrones and had just completed working on season one of the show when she suffered the first aneurysm in a public restroom in England and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. Emilia Clarke’s supportive parents were there for her through her surgeries and she makes mention of her father passing away in the year 2016. While I was not a watcher of the show Game of Thrones, I did see Emilia Clarke’s performance in the 2016 movie Me Before You for which I wrote a movie review that is posted on the writing platform, HubPages (hubpages.com/@journey)

Emilia Clarke gave a powerful and noteworthy performance in that film, Me Before You. That movie was very memorable for its sad themes as her character loves a paralyzed and sickly man. It is so interesting and forthcoming for Emilia Clarke to come forward now and discuss her own very serious health struggles that she has faced in the past years. It is sad that she had to go through all of that, with the second brain aneurysm keeping her in the hospital for a month and it is remarkable for her to share her courageous story of getting through all of that while still very actively and profoundly pursuing her acting career.