While watching Game Of Thrones in its entirety, you'd probably never know that one of the main, dare I say, most important characters, was recovering from a very serious brain injury that could have ended her life, but thankfully didn't.
While watching Game Of Thrones in its entirety, you'd probably never know that one of the main, dare I say, most important characters, was recovering from a very serious brain injury that could have ended her life, but thankfully didn't.
Just after filming the show's first season, Emilia suffered from two brain aneurysms.
She described the pain she was feeling and the damage she felt was being done to her brain.
Emilia was taken to the hospital where they discovered a bleed in her brain that would typically result in death or permanent brain damage.
She remembered wanting to "pull the plug.”
Living with that uncertainty would be an extreme hardship for anyone.
By the time Game Of Thrones had wrapped up season three, Emilia's second aneurysm had doubled in size.
"If a part of your brain doesn’t get blood to it for a minute, it will just no longer work. It’s like you’ll short-circuit. So I had that," she continued.
"They didn't know what it was. They literally were looking at the brain and being like, 'Well, we think it could be her concentration, it could be her peripheral vision [affected],'" she said.
"I always say it's my taste in men that's no longer there! That's the part of my brain, yeah, my decent taste in men."
“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," he told Entertainment Tonight.
"My Khaleesi!," he added.
“The first time it was difficult, but with the second one, I found it much harder to stay optimistic," she said.
"I definitely went through a period of being down — putting it mildly," she said.
“That became the thing that saved me from considering my own mortality," she explained.
Way to take a horrific experience and turn it into something positive!