Emilia Clarke has bravely shared previously unseen photos of her hospital treatment for two brain aneurysms.
The Game Of Thrones actress was diagnosed with the haemorrhages back in 2011 and had to undergo extensive operations.
After revealing her heartbreaking health problems last month, Emilia, 32, has now shared never-before-seen photos of her laying in a hospital bed and with a drip taped to her head.
Opening up about her ordeal, Emilia told CBS Sunday Morning: ‘Very quickly I realised I couldn’t stand and I couldn’t walk, and in that moment I knew I was being brain damaged.
‘The second one there was a bit of my brain that actually died, if your brain doesn’t get blood to it for a minute it will just no longer work. It’s like you short-circuit.’
But reflecting on the life-threatening situation with humour, Emilia joked: ‘I always say it’s my taste in men that’s no longer there.
‘For a very long time I thought it was my ability to act, from the first one as well.’
The British actress went on to explain how her role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game Of Thrones helped her get through the ordeal.
She revealed: ‘You got on set and you play a bada*s and you walk through fire, and that became the thing that saved me from considering my mortality.’
Emilia first revealed her terrifying health problems in a heartfelt essay written for the New York Times in March.
In the lengthy article, Emilia admits feeling like she ‘wanted to pull the plug’ in her ‘worst moments’.
Emilia’s former GoT co-star Jason Momoa recently told Entertainment Tonight that he was ‘sad’ after ‘almost losing her numerous times’.
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