Emilia Clarke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The first one, not at all.
The second one, when you're in America has stronger drugs.
I was on Oxycontin and Percocets way back before anyone knew that those words were bad.
There was a lot of pain medication.
Speech and movement came, but it was a process.
Nothing like Clemmie.
The biggest thing that happened to me with the second brain hemorrhage was I shut down emotionally.
Right.
And it became this thing where I just couldn't look anyone in the eye.
When you have a brain injury,
You move around in the world.
And for me, what happened after the first and specifically after the second, I was just convinced that I had cheated death and I was meant to die.
And that every day that was, I should be, that's all I could think about.
So it was the opposite of like, I survived.
I feel great.
And it was this like, I'm not meant to be here.
This is...
gonna come and get me um and that like it just it just cuts you off from being able to engage with the outside world because you're walking around knowing that your body has failed you your brain has failed you this thing that you know to be where yourself your perception of yourself lies has failed you and no one else can see it
So you've become very sensitive.
And then I'll never forget, we went to Comic-Con again, like literally six weeks later, I'm like promoting the show.