Emilia Clarke has "quite a bit missing" from her brain after she suffered two brain aneurysms. The ‘Game of Thrones’ star underwent life-saving surgery after she had two instances of ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain in 2011 and 2013.
And the 35-year-old actress has recalled how she used lines from the hit fantasy series - in which she played Daenerys Targaryen - to try and help her "regain consciousness" during her aneurysm and admitted she's lucky she's still verbal.
Speaking on the BBC's 'Sunday Morning' with Sophie Raworth, she recalled: "It was just the most excruciating pain, huge vomiting, trying to regain consciousness; I kept asking myself all these questions. "I hilariously kept saying lines from the show in my head.
If you are throwing up and you have a headache, that is not good for your brain. "I was 22 [when she had the first aneurysm] but it was helpful having 'Game of Thrones' to sweep me up and give me that purpose. "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. “I am in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that. " She added: "There’s quite a bit missing, which always makes me laugh! "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.
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