Jason Momoa has called his Game Of Thrones cast member Emilia Clarke ‘so brave’ after she opened up about battling two brain aneurysms.
‘I’ve kind of been a part of that whole situation for a very long time, so we’ve had so many scares and trying to find the right way to come out and help. I just think it’s beautiful that… she’s so brave in helping the world and trying to raise awareness,’ Jason revealed at the season eight premiere on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old actress revealed in March that she had battled two life-threatening aneurysms in 2011 after the end of the first season of HBO fantasy drama.
At the time she was working opposite Jason, 39 who played her husband, Khal Drogo, and he admitted that he was ‘very sad, because we almost lost her the first time’.
‘I love her to bits and she’s here and she’s going to do great things with it and teach the world,’ he told ET.
Game Of Thrones’ final season is now less than two weeks away and the stars of the show (including some old favourites) were out in force to attend the premiere of series eight.
There was a Khaleesi and Khal Drogo reunion and we’ve always got time for that, with Emilia (aka Khaleesi, aka Daenerys Targaryen) looking every inch the queen that she is as she arrived in a sheer tulle dress that she teamed with a very vampy and cool dark purple lipstick.
Emilia revealed her devastating health problems for the first time in a powerful essay for The New Yorker in March, recalling how the issues started when she felt unwell during a training session not long after wrapping up filming for season one of Game Of Thrones in 2011.
Emilia was immediately rushed to hospital where she underwent a three-hour ‘minimally invasive surgery’ and four days in an intensive care unit.
However, the surgery wasn’t entirely successful and Emilia even struggled to remember her name; she eventually resumed work on Game Of Thrones but was often ‘so woozy, so weak’ that she thought she would lose her life and at one point, the pain was so bad that Emilia had to take morphine between interviews for pain relief.
Unfortunately, Emilia’s ordeal wasn’t over as a brain scan in 2013 revealed that her second aneurysm had doubled in size and required another operation.
The procedure failed and Emilia suffered a ‘massive bleed’ forcing doctors to operate again, this time accessing her brain through her skull.
Emilia revealed that her health has improved in the years since ‘beyond [her] most unreasonable hopes’ and it is now at ‘a hundred per cent’.
Following her ordeal, Emilia has now launched a charity, SameYou, which aims to raise money for those recovering from brain surgeries and strokes.
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