Emilia Clark's fears after surviving two brain aneurysms

Emilia Clarke has revealed how difficult it was to recover from two brain aneurysms, revealing she feared dying on live TV and was scared of getting fired after her health scares.

The Game of Thrones star, 37, spoke candidly about her experience to the Big Issue, saying a brain injury "alters your sense of self on such a dramatic level".

"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?'" she explained.

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The publication reports she feared she was dying of "another brain haemorrhage because of the stress and pressure".

"Well, if I'm going to die, I better die on live TV," she said she once thought.

Clarke recently told Harper's Bazaar UK she decided "this is not something that's going to define me".

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"I never gave into any feeling of 'Why me? This sucks,'" she tells the publication. "I was just like – gotta get back on it."

She previously told BBC's Sunday Morning that it's "remarkable" she is "able to speak" following the aneurysms, which she suffered in 2011 and 2013.

"It was the most excruciating pain," she said.

"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."

Clarke first publicly revealed her health scares in a 2019 essay published in The New Yorker.

The star recalled being rushed to hospital after noticing a "shooting, stabbing, constricting pain" in her head which turned out to be an aneurysm.

She then developed a condition called aphasia where she "couldn't recall" her own name.

In 2019, Clarke founded the brain injury recovery charity SameYou to raise awareness and funds for brain injury and stroke.

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