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Emilia Clarke Receives Royal Honor for Brain Injury Charity Work
Prince William honored the Game of Thrones actor and her mother.
The mother-daughter duo founded their organization, SameYou, in 2019, after Emilia survived two life-threatening brain aneurysms in 2011 and then in 2013, both in the midst of her rise to fame as a star of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Alarmed by seeing how understaffed rehabilitation facilities helping patients recover from brain injuries were, and thankful for the actor’s place in what she calls “the minority” of survivors of the medical events with “no repercussions” (she has titanium plates on parts of her skull after surgery to remediate damage), they founded SameYou to raise funds and awareness of brian injury and stroke. Emilia Clarke first revealed her brain injuries in a personal essay in the New Yorker in 2019, saying that after her first bleed, she could not speak or even remember her name.
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