Emilia Clarke has shared a video thanking fans for their support after she revealed that she suffered and survived two brain aneurysms while filming Game Of Thrones.
The 32-year-old actress took to Instagram on Friday, a day after first sharing her traumatic story, to offer 'a million thank yous' to everyone who had 'sent her love'.
Emilia said that it is a 'beautiful thing to behold' that so many people had got in touch with their well-wishes, adding that she shocked by how many it has affected.
Thank you: Emilia Clarke has shared a video thanking fans for their support after she revealed that she suffered and survived two brain aneurysms while filming Game Of Thrones
In the caption of the clip, she penned: 'A million million thank you’s to everyone who has read shared and sent love for my story, it’s a beautiful thing to behold and I can’t quite believe how many of you this has affected!
'@sameyouorg is ready to hear your stories, how you recovered and what could have made that recovery experience better. By hearing your stories we can build a case for an improved aftercare experience for all in the future...who wouldn’t want that!'
During the short clip Emilia said thank you to her supporters for their 'overwhelming' response to her story, before encouraging them to share their own stories.
She said: 'Hi everyone, I had to put a video up to say thank you. The response from my story has been overwhelming and deeply and profoundly moving, so thank you so much.
Scary: Emilia revealed that she suffered and survived two brain aneurysms while filming Game Of Thrones
'So you've heard my story, and now we would like to hear yours. So please go to sameyou.org and tell us your recovery story.'
Emilia, who plays 'Mother of Dragons' Daenerys Targaryen, shared in a candid interview with the The New Yorker that she had her first aneurysm in 2011.
She said: 'Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.'
Emilia then explained that she had just finished filming the first season of the HBO fantasy series when she had her initial brain aneurysm while working out with a trainer.
Health: The actress, 32, who plays 'Mother of Dragons' Daenerys Targaryen, shared in a candid interview with the The New Yorker that she had her first aneurysm in 2011 (pictured in character in GoT series one)
Fearing for her life, the star admitted she repeatedly told herself that this would not be the end, as she tried to keep a sense of herself by reciting her lines from Game of Thrones.
Emilia, who was just 24 at the time, was quickly sent for an MRI where they diagnosed her with a subarachnoid haemorrhage.
This type of hemorrhage is a life-threatening form of stroke, which is caused by bleeding around the brain and a third of patients die immediately or soon after suffering one.
She said: 'Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time'
Emilia said: 'In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug. I asked the medical staff to let me die. My job—my entire dream of what my life would be—centred on language, on communication. Without that, I was lost.'
Emilia said that she was told that she had another, smaller, aneurysm on the other side of her brain while in hospital recovering which could burst at any time, however it may also just lie dormant.
Before she was thrown back into filming, Emilia had to endure a press tour for the first season of the show and said she remembers feeling like she could die at any moment and made it through interviews by sipping on morphine.
Terrifying: Emilia then explained that she had just finished filming the first season of the HBO fantasy series when she had her initial brain aneurysm while working out with a trainer (pictured with Kit Harington (Jon Snow) during filming for Game Of Thrones)
Pushing on: She revealed that she had been undertaking exercise to relieve the stress of her newfound fame but soon started to feel a 'bad headache' and fatigue', yet she forced herself to continue the gruelling workout (pictured at the Oscars in February 2019)
After struggling through filming for season two and pushing herself to complete season three, Emilia took a role as Holly Golightly on Broadway.
While in New York, Emilia went for a one of her regular brain scans and medics discovered that it had doubled in size and wanted to operate to avoid any complications.
Despite being promised a simple operation, Emilia said she awoke screeching in agony following the failed operation and doctors had to operate again in order to improve her chance of survival.
Something's wrong: However, when Emilia got into the plank position she felt as though 'an elastic band were squeezing her brain' she then ran to the changing room where she became 'violently, voluminously ill'
She said while spending another month in hospital she sometimes lost hope and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, adding that she felt like a shadow of her former self.
The Me Before You actress said that she now struggles recalling those dark times because her mind has tried to block them out, but she does remember being convinced she would die, and that her story would get out.
A reporter asked her about her operation six weeks after the surgery, when the National Enquirer ran a small story, but Emilia was quick to deny the allegation.
Fearful: Fearing for her life, the star admitted she said to herself 'I will not be paralysed' as she tried to keep her 'memory alive' by reciting her lines from Game of Thrones
