Imagine stepping off a dragon’s back straight onto a hospital gurney. For the actress who embodied Daenerys Targaryen, the fire wasn’t just in the dragons—it was inside her skull. In the years when Game of Thrones made her a global icon, Emilia Clarke was secretly fighting two life-threatening brain aneurysms, enduring surgeries, memory loss, and the chilling fear that every day on set could be her last.

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