Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't know.
Someone somewhere had said, if you're throwing up and you have a headache, that's bad.
That's really bad.
So I started wiggling my fingers and toes and I started going through all the lines from the show.
And I just kept saying to myself, I'm an actor.
because I'd just got my dream job.
So I just wanted to, you know.
So I just kept saying this kind of mantra over and over and over and over again.
And then someone, and I don't know who, because I was really coming in and out of consciousness, someone obviously heard me, called an ambulance.
Someone else found my phone back in the day when your phone didn't need to be unlocked by your eyeballs.
And they called my mum and they got me in an ambulance.
And then my parents, by the time I'd got to hospital, my parents walked past because I was in the hallway.
It was a very busy London hospital, which at this point we're now on like a Saturday night.
And my parents walked past me because they didn't recognise me.
When you're in so much pain, there's just... And they were waiting to figure out what was wrong with me.
So they couldn't really give me any drugs.
So I was just in...
excruciating amounts of pain, and then they put us in this little room.
And the nurse on duty, the nurse on the night duty that came on, her husband was a brain surgeon, and she was like, has anyone given you a brain scan?
Because no one knew what was wrong.