Is there anyone more aggressively positive in life than Emilia Clarke?
The Game of Thrones , Last Christmas , and Me Before You actress maintains an almost inhuman positive attitude about everything, including her incredibly harrowing health issues.
Emilia revealed earlier this year that she had suffered not one but two brain aneurysms.
Clarke revealed that just after being cast in Game of Thrones , she was diagnosed with “a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.”
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After suffering through that experience, the doctors told her she had a second, smaller anuerysm on the other side of her brain that they would keep an eye on.
In 2013 she was told that the second aneurysm had “doubled in size” and would need to be surgically removed. This surgery “failed” and required a much more complicated and invasive treatment that lead to her spending a month in the hospital.
In a new interview, Emilia displayed her signature optimism when discussing her health.
“I’m at the point where I definitely think of the brain hemorrhage as a good thing,” Emilia told The Guardian .
“Because I was never destined to be the ‘young actor goes off the rails’ type, up and down the gossip columns.”
“And having a brain haemorrhage that coincided precisely with the beginning of my career and the beginning of a show that became something quite meaty, it gave me a perspective that I wouldn’t have had otherwise,” she continued.
“I’m quite a resilient human being,” she added.
“So a parent dying and brain hemorrhages coinciding with success and people following you in the street and getting stalkers – you’re just, like, ‘Well let’s try and make something sensible of it.’”
What an amazing attitude!
Honestly, we could all stand to be a little bit more like Emilia Clarke — I’m not even that positive and I’ve never gone through anything as life-threatening as she has.
