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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Emelia Clarke Reveals the Impact Her Near-Death Experience During Game of Thrones Had on Her Mental Health · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Amelia Clark's character, the Mother of Dragons, endured a lot
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  Speaker 2: on Game of Thrones, but what she went through during
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  Speaker 2: the making of the show was far more harrowing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first of two brain hemorrhages, which happened right
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  Speaker 3: after she wrapped season one and truly almost killed her.
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  Speaker 3: She couldn't speak for a week after surgery.
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  Speaker 4: And she was only twenty two when she had the
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  Speaker 4: first one, and then twenty four when she had my second,
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  Speaker 4: which is really just the start of her life.
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  Speaker 2: And she's now being very honest about the impact it
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  Speaker 2: had on her outlook and how surviving it wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: only battle, she tells Variety. For a number of years,
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  Speaker 2: she'd felt that she cheated death and it was coming
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  Speaker 2: to get her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she truly felt like she'd done something wrong and
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  Speaker 3: that she shouldn't be here. She even worried it ruined
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  Speaker 3: her ability to act, even before joking. Some critics might agree.
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  Speaker 4: And Amelia realized that she wasn't the only person dealing
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  Speaker 4: with emotional and physical trauma recovering from a brain injury,
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  Speaker 4: so she decided to do something about it.
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  Speaker 2: Alongside her mom, she found It Same You, a charity
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  Speaker 2: that aims to develop better recovery treatment for survivors of
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  Speaker 2: brain injuries and stroke. Amelia's new fantasy romance, Next Life,
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  Speaker 2: recently debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and should likely
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  Speaker 2: hit theaters later this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.