Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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which is basically when your brain is being formed, it's one cell and there might be a weakness on one artery.
And as the cell grows and turns into the two sides of your brain, that weakness is separated equally onto both sides.
So I had this one that ruptured and they were like, there's this smaller one, but it's too small to operate on.
So we're just going to keep an eye on it and it's going to be fine.
And I went and got the brain scan and the doctors in America said, hey lady, we've got to do something about this.
It's got like...
three times bigger in the last six months.
It's going to be a really quick operation.
It's going to be in and out, in overnight.
That's it.
It's going to be totally fine.
You're in really good hands.
My mom and dad flew over for it.
And I remember counting down with the anesthetic and I was just like, this is, I had just had a terrible feeling.
And then the next thing I remember is them waking me up and having that pain all over again because they were like, we're going to crack.
It went wrong.
We have to cut your head open and we have to have your permission.
And then I remember, all I remember is I'm lying on the gurney and I can see my mum and dad like over there.
And I can just remember my mum's head nodding, going, say yes.
It had just gone wrong in surgery.