{"id":10586,"date":"2026-06-04T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/emiliya-klark-o-tom-kak-dvigatsya-dalshe-posle-dvuh-krovoizliyanij-v-mozg-vosstanovlenie-tak-zhe-vazhno-kak-i-vyzhivanie\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:22:11","slug":"emilia-clarke-on-moving-forward-after-two-brain-hemorrhages-recovery-is-as-important-as-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/emiliya-klark-o-tom-kak-dvigatsya-dalshe-posle-dvuh-krovoizliyanij-v-mozg-vosstanovlenie-tak-zhe-vazhno-kak-i-vyzhivanie\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilia Clarke on moving on after two brain hemorrhages: &#039;Recovery is as important as survival.&#039;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke delivers touching speech at awards ceremony <em>Variety<\/em> \u2018&#039;s Power of Women London, supported by Lifetime, told the story of how she survived two brain hemorrhages in her early 20s.<\/p>\n<p> In her cover story last week, Clarke detailed how she survived the hemorrhages but still retained her sense of humor 15 years after her health problems.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Josh O&#039;Connor, Tom Francis, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Thea Sharrock and Edward Enninful will perform at the inaugural Power of Women London awards.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Emilia Clarke&#039;s &#039;The Next Life&#039; acquired by Vertigo Releasing for UK and Ireland release (EXCLUSIVE)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Emilia Clarke on Game of Thrones salary rumors, Pony season 2, and living with survivor&#039;s guilt: &quot;I felt like I cheated death and it was going to catch up with me.&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> \u00ab&quot;For several years, I felt like I&#039;d cheated death and it was just about to catch up with me,&quot; she said. &quot;I genuinely felt like I&#039;d done something wrong and I shouldn&#039;t be here. I also thought it had ruined my acting ability\u2014which some might agree with!&quot;\u00bb<\/p>\n<p> Clarke and her mother founded the charity SameYou in 2019 after she went public with her experience, with the goal of helping other brain haemorrhage survivors. &quot;When I finally shared my story in 2019, we were overwhelmed by the response,&quot; she said at the Power of Women London conference. &quot;It was primarily young people who reached out to us to tell their stories. Today, in our community, tens of thousands of people who have experienced similar experiences are saying essentially the same thing: the road to recovery feels like falling off a cliff, with no one there to catch you.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> The Game of Thrones star accepted the award alongside Emma Corrin, Hannah Waddingham, Suki Waterhouse, and Cynthia Erivo. Read her full acceptance speech below, and watch the video above:<\/p>\n<p> Hello, everyone! Thank you, Thea, for this wonderful introduction, and thank you to Variety for recognizing this incredible group of honorees. I&#039;m honored to be in a room full of people using their platforms to bring attention to such important and close-to-the-heart issues. I&#039;m here to highlight the shocking health inequities that affect millions of people yet remain largely invisible. In Hollywood, that&#039;s usually a superpower. In healthcare, it&#039;s a problem. It&#039;s also my story, and the reason I founded my charity, SameYou.<\/p>\n<p> The fact is: one in three people will suffer a traumatic brain injury at some point in their lives, and if you survive one, you can expect to recover and return to a normal life. But you&#039;d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p> We are facing a widespread crisis in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. In the UK and US, the total number of people living with the life-changing consequences of stroke and traumatic brain injury exceeds 15 million. Yet, our healthcare systems still lack a clear path out of this crisis and are unable to help those in need.<\/p>\n<p> That&#039;s why my mother, Jenny, and I founded SameYou. Because finding the support you need to get your life back on track is often difficult\u2014it&#039;s a social injustice that&#039;s rarely talked about, let alone addressed or funded. It&#039;s one of the biggest gaps in health and social care systems, no matter where you live.<\/p>\n<p> I was 22 when I had my first brain hemorrhage. I was 24 when I had my second. I was also 22 when I filmed the first season of Game of Thrones, and 24 when I made my Broadway debut. I&#039;d like to blame the bad reviews on the brain hemorrhage, but it happened after the play closed, right at the beginning\u2026<\/p>\n<p> Fifteen years after my first hemorrhage, I understand how difficult that time was. I didn&#039;t have the opportunity to process the consequences of two traumatic brain injuries because I could walk, talk, be myself, remember my lines, and return to filming within weeks of both injuries.<\/p>\n<p> I was okay, right?<\/p>\n<p> I ignored the hormonal changes, or rather, the lack thereof, and my incredible fatigue, which no one I knew in their 20s suffered from. What about my anxiety? Wasn&#039;t that normal in our image-obsessed industry? A broken rib after filming a sex scene? Well, maybe that was his fault. But sometimes I even passed out after long nights of shooting? The pain all over my body? I didn&#039;t even think to figure out the cause. I simply attributed it to stress and my nonstop work schedule, which I didn&#039;t cope with very well. I thought everything had improved. So did my doctors. None of us saw a pattern, so I blamed myself.<\/p>\n<p> It never occurred to me that maybe the problem wasn&#039;t me... but that traumatic brain injury is an incredibly complex phenomenon, and we&#039;re only just beginning to understand the impact it can have long after a person has supposedly recovered.<\/p>\n<p> Typically, when a person is rushed to the hospital with a traumatic brain injury, doctors do everything possible to save their life. They stop the bleeding, remove the clot, find its source, excise it, suture it, and send them home. But many don&#039;t realize that whatever symptoms they may have\u2014physical, cognitive, emotional, linguistic\u2014the consequence is unresolved trauma. And there are simply too few neuropsychologists and specialized rehabilitation services to change this situation without a major shift in priorities.<\/p>\n<p> When everyone around you thinks you look good, they treat you accordingly. Eventually, you start to believe you should look good too. I often compare modern traumatic brain injuries to what cancer was like a century ago: misunderstood, stigmatized, and hidden from view.<\/p>\n<p> When rehabilitation is available, it&#039;s typically measured in weeks rather than years, and focuses only on the most obvious symptoms. Recovery from traumatic brain injuries is still in its infancy, leading to loss of potential and livelihoods, and leaving too many people without the help they need.<\/p>\n<p> At SameYou, our mission is to help reimagine recovery.<\/p>\n<p> In 2011, I didn&#039;t want anyone to know about my brain hemorrhages. I was ashamed and overwhelmed by a diagnosis I didn&#039;t understand. We didn&#039;t even tell HBO until we were sure I wasn&#039;t going to die, which, in television terms, is usually when characters are killed off. After my second hemorrhage in 2014, I began to think that maybe speaking publicly would help. But it still took me years to come to terms with my truth.<\/p>\n<p> When I finally shared my story in 2019, we were overwhelmed by the response. It was primarily young people who reached out to us to share their stories. Today, tens of thousands of people in our community who have experienced similar experiences say essentially the same thing: the path to recovery feels like falling off a cliff with no one there to catch you.<\/p>\n<p> I knew I had to do something. It all started with a desire to buy a new sofa for the living room in my hospital&#039;s intensive care unit. Then I began supporting the nurses who held my hand, cared for my body, and talked to me while I tried to understand what was happening to me. Then I began imagining what my recovery would look like if I didn&#039;t have a family. If I didn&#039;t have financial stability. If I didn&#039;t have a job that was willing to wait for me. Eventually, it all evolved into the SameYou project.<\/p>\n<p> Recovery is as important as survival.<\/p>\n<p> People need help. They need answers. They need support\u2014physical and psychological.<\/p>\n<p> Because when you think about who you are\u2014your personality, your intelligence, your sense of humor, your memories, your excellent taste\u2014where do they live? In your mind.<\/p>\n<p> And when it doesn&#039;t help, it can undermine your self-confidence. It can frighten you and convince you that you&#039;ll never be the same again.<\/p>\n<p> But we know that recovery from trauma is possible. Hence the name: SameYou.<\/p>\n<p> Recently, fifteen years after my first brain hemorrhage, I began my own, rather belated, journey to recovery. Thanks to the guidance and help of the brilliant David Putrino of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, I now possess the energy and positive outlook I had in my early twenties.<\/p>\n<p> It was a journey, not a miracle cure.<\/p>\n<p> One in three of us will suffer a traumatic brain injury in our lifetime. That&#039;s a huge number of people whose lives will be dramatically changed.<\/p>\n<p> So if this happens to you or someone you love, they need a way to move on.<\/p>\n<p> Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell my story. Thank you to the tens of thousands of people who have experienced similar things and who continue to inspire us every day.<\/p>\n<p> And thanks for listening.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The best of variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> What&#039;s Coming to Disney+ in June 2026?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> What&#039;s Coming to Netflix in June 2026?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Tony Awards Predictions: Early Predictions Including &#039;Death of a Salesman&#039; and &#039;The Lost Boys,&#039; Plus Possible Records for Squibb, Lithgow, and Apple.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Subscribe to the Variety newsletter. 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