Clarke founded the charity SameYou to help other brain injury victims with their recovery and mental health.
Emilia Clarke He opened up about his return to game of Thrones after suffering two brain aneurysms during her time as Daenerys Targaryen on the show HBO.
In a new interview, Clarke said that after her first injury, which occurred in 2011, between filming the first and second seasons, and required surgery, she feared she would be written off the series.
“When you have a brain injury, because it alters your sense of self to such a dramatic level, all the insecurities you have coming into the workplace quadruple overnight,” Clarke said. “The first fear we all had was: ‘My God, are they going to fire me? Are they going to fire me because they think I’m not capable of completing the job?’”
Another fear was that it would happen again, and this time on set. She told the Big Issue portal that she remembers thinking: “Well, if I’m going to die, I better die on live television.”.
Clarke suffered another brain aneurysm in 2013 and underwent a second surgery. In an interview with the BBC’s “Sunday Morning” in 2022, she revealed that she lost “quite a bit” of her brain in the process.
“The part of my brain that is no longer usable… It’s amazing that I can speak, sometimes articulately, and live my life completely normally without any repercussions.” Clarke said. “I’m in a very, very, very small minority of people who can survive that.”
As a result, Clarke founded the charity SameYou to help other brain injury victims with their recovery and mental health.
“Having a chronic illness that diminishes your confidence in what you feel is your reason for living is very debilitating and very lonely”Clarke said. “One of the biggest things I felt with a brain injury was being deeply alone. “That’s what we’re trying to overcome.”
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