In 2011, shortly after the end of the filming of the first season of the Games of the Thrones, Emilia Clark suffered a stroke due to the rupture of the head of the brain. The actress was literally in a step from death, but fortunately, an emergency operation and subsequent rehabilitation helped her to overcome terrible ailment. True, for a long time Clark kept this incident in secret. She first told about it only eight months ago in an interview with The New Yorker. Returning to this topic when writing a podcast Table Manners, the actress admitted that she did not tell her illness even to producers "Games of Thrones", fearing that she would deprive the roles of Deineris Targaryen.
I could not open them all the details of what happened until it became known that I would not die. So for three weeks I could only talk something like: "Sorry, that I did not answer your old emails. I am a little unhealthy recently ... But in general, I'm fine! " By the way, now I am completely healthy. All perfectly. I will return to work again, nothing will hurt me anymore. I feel excellent. I was very afraid that I could dismiss me for one reason or another. So I would seek alone with him. I did not know that I really really value me,
- said Clark.
It is worth adding that later, already recovering from the illness, Clark took part in creating a charitable fund to combat brain disease.