Emilia Clarke feared she’d be fired from ‘Game of Thrones’ — here’s why
nypost.comDaenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones,” has confessed that she lived in fear of getting fired. “When you have a brain injury, because it alters your sense of self on such a dramatic level, all of the insecurities you have going into the workplace quadruple overnight,” Clarke told Big Issue in an article published June 10. “The first fear we all had was: ‘Oh my God, am I going to get fired?
Am I going to get fired because they think I’m not capable of completing the job?’ ”Clarke was referring to a health scare that she’s previously opened up about.
In 2019, she revealed that shortly after filming Season 1 of the HBO megahit in 2011, she had an aneurysm, which also led to a type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.“Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life,” she wrote in a piece published by The New Yorker in 2019.
As she explained in that piece, Clarke, who was 24 at the time, collapsed in the bathroom and was rushed to the hospital. An MRI showed that she had suffered a “subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.”Following a four-day stay in the hospital after her first “minimally invasive” surgery, Clarke experienced aphasia, an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of brain damage.“I was sent back to the ICU and, after about a week, the aphasia passed,” she wrote in that 2019 essay of returning to the intensive care unit. “I was able to speak.
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