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00:00Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has revealed that just as the HBO series was

00:03taking off, she was battling serious health issues. Now, the actress is opening up

00:08about surviving two life-threatening aneurysms and the dark times that

00:12followed in an emotional new essay for The New Yorker. She wrote that after a

00:16headache turned into unbearable pain and she got violently ill, she was taken to

00:20the hospital and told she needed emergency surgery to seal off a brain

00:24aneurysm. Clarke says the operation left her in terrible pain and she began

00:28suffering from aphasia, the inability to understand and express speech. She

00:32revealed that her recovery brought her to some dark places, even asking the

00:36medical staff to let her die during her lowest moments. However, the aphasia

00:40passed after one week, but when she was released from the hospital, doctors

00:43warned her that she had a smaller aneurysm that could pop at any moment. The

00:47recovery process continued as she did press for the first season of Game of

00:50Thrones. The actress revealed that to get through the pain, I sipped on morphine

00:54in between interviews. Then, in 2013, Clarke learned that the aneurysm had

00:58doubled in size and she had to get another operation. But it didn't go as

01:03planned. She wrote,

01:04When they woke me, I was screaming in pain. The procedure had failed. I had a

01:09massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were

01:12precarious if they didn't operate again immediately. Clarke spent yet another

01:16month in the hospital dealing with terrible pain, saying she had lost all hope. But the

01:21actress revealed, in the essay, in the years since my second surgery, I have healed

01:25beyond my most unreasonable hopes. I am now at 100 percent. As the final season of

01:30her HBO show gets ready to premiere on April 14th, Clarke says, there is something

01:34gratifying and beyond lucky about coming to the end of Thrones. For much more from

01:38the actress's revealing essay, head to THR.com. Until next time, for The Hollywood

01:42Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.