"I've got to be honest, I did. Not just my dog": When Emilia Clarke revealed that she spilled the ending of Game of Thrones to just one person

In 2019, ahead of the Game of Thrones finale, Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen aka the Mother of Dragons, appeared as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Among other things, when Colbert asked whether she had revealed the Game of Thrones ending to anybody, Clarke nodded yes. Clarke clarified that she had spilled the GOT finale secrets to her mother. She told,

"Well I've gotta be honest, I did. Not just my dog. I wasn't supposed to. Sorry lads. I told my mum."

Clarke continued,

"But the good thing about telling my mom these things she's a vault because she's just done forgotten it. I told her."

Clarke shared how she went for a long walk after she read the finale script for the first time. She said,

"I could't quite handle it. So I walked out. It should have been raining- it was just that kind of a moment. Existential crisis. And I went for a walk didn't bring anything and kind of walked for two hours."

It has been almost six years that the Game of Thrones wrapped up with the Season 8 finale. The finale received mixed reviews- while some were not too elated about how it mindlessly killed a fan-favourite character, others praised the cast's performance. Nonetheless Game of Thrones based on George R.R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire starring Sophie Turner, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage remains one of the most iconic series in televsion history.

Emilia Clarke suffered two brain hemorrhages while filming for Game of Thrones

In 2019, the Game of Thrones actress revealed to The New Yorker that she had suffered two life-altering brain hemorrhages (one in 2011 and another in 2013). Clarke, who was just 24 years old at that time, had to undergo three hour long brain surgery. In The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she revealed some more details about her health problem,

"I suffered two brain hemorrhages when I was filming during those 10 years. Right after we shot Season 1 and after we shot Season 3."

Clarke noted the symptoms that led to her diagnosis. She told,

"Oh you know, It's the worst headache, a human could possibly manage to sort of experience. You're incredibly ill, horrific headache and some point of my life I knew it was brain damage."

Clarke continued that to minimize the damage, she tried to stay active, both physically and mentally. She practiced finger, toe, and hand exercises frequently and memorized her scripts. She was quite petrified throughout due to the diagnosis but was determined to her craft.

Apart from Game of Thrones, the 38 year old actress has been a part of several other projects including Terminator Genisys, Me Before You, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland and Voice from the Stone. Some of her upcoming projects includes, Criminal, The Queen of Fashion, Next Life, and An Ideal Wife.

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