Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke was in the midst of battling a brain aneurysm when she delivered one of Daenerys’ most powerful scenes.
She admitted that during season two, ‘every day I thought I was going to die’.
In an incredible climax to the third season, Daenerys got one over on a slave owner who demanded one of her dragons in exchange for an army of Unsullied.
The slave owner thought Daenerys couldn’t speak Valyrian and constantly insulted her.
Daenerys handed over one of her dragons and began to take charge of her new army, to the slave owner’s horror.
She ordered the soldiers to ‘slay the masters, slay the soldiers, slay every man who holds a whip, but harm no child. Strike the chains off every slave you see.’
The Unsullied followed her orders, and then in one final attack, she ordered Drogon to unleash hellfire by uttering: ‘Dracarys’, and roasting the slave owner who wanted her dragon.
The actress would then undergo another grueling operation in 2013 – after finishing season three – which left her ‘screaming in pain’.
She told The New Yorker: ‘The procedure had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn’t operate again.
‘This time they needed to access my brain in the old-fashioned way—through my skull. And the operation had to happen immediately.
Emilia revealed the recovery from the second operation was ‘more painful’ than after the first, and that she ’emerged…with a drain coming out of my head’. She still bears a scar running from her scalp to her ear from surgery.
Following her ordeal, Emilia has now launched a charity, SameYou, which aims to raise money for those recovering from brain surgeries and strokes.
Game Of Thrones returns 14 April on Sky Atlantic and HBO
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