She ended up needing multiple brain surgeries, and had to fight through a lot to continue her work on the show.
In late March of this year, Emilia Clarke came out and spoke about the two terrifying brain aneurysms she suffered at 24, shortly after filming ended on the first season of Game of Thrones.
As Clarke wrote in her article for The New Yorker, after finding herself with a horrible headache she couldn’t shake while trying to exercise one day, she was eventually rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a frequently lethal type of stroke, which required surgery.