GoT actress survived two serious aneurysms since show's startMarch 22, 2019 - 12:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Game of Thrones" actress Emilia Clarke has revealed she suffered two life-threatening aneurysms and has undergone two brain surgeries since the show started filming. An unknown actress before landing the role, Clarke had just finished filming her first season as Daenerys Targaryen, the "Mother of Dragons", on the HBO fantasy series when she had the first aneurysm in 2011 at age 24 while working out at a London gym, ABC says. "Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life," Clarke wrote in a first-person story in The New Yorker. "I've never told this story publicly, but now it's time." Clarke said she had been healthy all her life, but was suffering from serious stress when the artery burst in her brain. Much of it came from constant press questions about the nudity of her character, a conquering queen, in the show's first episode. "I always got the same question [that was] some variation of: 'You play such a strong woman, and yet you take off your clothes. Why?'," Clarke wrote. "In my head, I'd respond: 'How many men do I need to kill to prove myself?'." She said she suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage the first time around, which is often fatal. She was unable to speak her full name even weeks later. The second aneurysm, which prompted an invasive surgery that involved opening her skull, came after Clarke finished shooting the third season of the show, which has since been green-lit for a prequel by HBO. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |