The British actress wrote: ‘My trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain.’
She tried to ignore the pain and continue with the workout but it became more difficult and she made it to the bathroom before becoming ‘violently, voluminously ill’.
Emilia was immediately rushed to hospital where she underwent a three-hour ‘minimally invasive surgery’ and four days in an intensive care unit.
However, the surgery wasn’t entirely successful and Emilia even struggled to remember her name; she eventually resumed work on Game Of Thrones but was often ‘so woozy, so weak’ that she thought she would lose her life and at one point, the pain was so bad that Emilia had to take morphine between interviews for pain relief.
Unfortunately, Emilia’s ordeal wasn’t over as a brain scan in 2013 revealed that her second aneurysm had doubled in size and required another operation.
The procedure failed and Emilia suffered a ‘massive bleed’ forcing doctors to operate again, this time accessing her brain through her skull.
Emilia revealed that her health has improved in the years since ‘beyond [her] most unreasonable hopes’ and it is now at ‘a hundred per cent’.
Following her ordeal, Emilia has now launched a charity, SameYou, which aims to raise money for those recovering from brain surgeries and strokes.
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