Emilia Clarke is missing “quite a bit” of her brain after past aneurysms

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Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has discussed how there is “quite a bit” of her brain missing after suffering two aneurysms.Back in 2019, Clarke spoke out about the aneurysms, the first of which she suffered after completing filming on the first series of the HBO hit series.Yesterday (July 17), the actor – who played Daenerys Targaryen in the show – spoke again about the experience during an interview on BBC One’s Sunday Morning talk show.“The amount of my brain that is no longer usable – it’s remarkable that I am able to speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions,” she revealed.Of the brain scans she has since received, Clarke said: “There’s quite a bit missing!

Which always makes me laugh.“I am in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that.”She added: “Because strokes, basically, as soon as any part of your brain doesn’t get blood for a second, it’s gone.

And so the blood finds a different route to get around but then whatever bit it’s missing is therefore gone.”In an essay for the New Yorker back in 2019, Clarke explained that she began to feel a bad headache while getting ready to work out and had to push herself through her first few exercises. “My trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain,” she wrote. “I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t.”Clarke said she took a break and made it to the locker room “almost crawling”, where she was sick and the pain got worse.

A woman in the next stall came to help her and she was taken to hospital, where she was sent for an MRI scan. The results revealed she had suffered a “subarachnoid.