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Emilia Clarke Was Afraid of Getting Fired From ‘Game of Thrones’ After Brain Injury

The actress pointed out that a brain injury ‘alters your sense of self’ during a new interview.

While opening up to The Big Issue in an interview published on Monday, June 10, the 37-year-old actress recalled how her brain injury convinced her that she would lose her job on the acclaimed HBO series. “When you have a brain injury — because it alters your sense of self on such a dramatic level — all of the insecurities you have going into the workplace quadruple overnight,” Emilia explained. “The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain,” Emilia revealed.

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