Emilia Clarke

maybe a month.

And then I was doing press for the first season of Game of Thrones, still with a bit of morphine.

I was so ashamed that this thing had happened and that the people who had employed me might

see me as weak or see me as something that could be broken.

It was so like, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

And I was so young and it was so all consuming that any repercussions of the injury, I just absolutely ignored and tried my best to just like pretend like it didn't happen in order to get back to work.

In order to keep working and be, you know, good.

And then very quickly after that, we were doing season two.

Did you tell anyone on Game of Thrones at all?

No.

I told David and Dan, the showrunners, because I felt it was like my duty to say, I didn't die.

So everything's fine.

But just letting you know.

And they were obviously very kind and lovely, but...

It was not something I told a single soul because I just didn't want anyone to know.

Yeah.

What is the first feeling that you get?

I have to preface this with the night before I'd had this horrible headache and I just felt restless and anxious and stressed.

I remember it really clearly being like, I don't feel good in my brain and body anymore.