Emilia Clarke, 39, reveals heartbreaking fears over motherhood as she worries a baby could inherit her life-threatening condition

By CHARLOTTE DEAN, ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR Emilia Clarke has shared her heartbreaking concerns that any future children she has could inherit her life-threatening heart condition. The actress, 39, has nearly died twice from the potentially fatal condition which caused two brain haemorrhages, the first of which happened age 24. The Games Of Thrones star, who shot to global stardom playing Daenerys Targaryen in the hit HBO fantasy series, laid bare the reality of living with the condition. Speaking on the Dear Chelsea podcast this week, she opened up on the impact it could have on any of her future children. Emilia said: 'I was born with a weakness in my arteries that's hereditary. 'If I were to have a baby, I'd be like, "Get that baby in an MRI machine immediately so I can see if it has it."' Emilia Clarke has shared her heartbreaking concerns that any future children she has could inherit her life-threatening heart condition The actress, 39, has nearly died twice from the potentially fatal condition which caused two brain haemorrhages, the first of which happened age 24 The Me Before You star said there is nothing that can be done to prevent the condition, but she follows certain lifestyle guidelines: 'Don't take drugs, don't do stuff that's going to raise your blood pressure, don't work too hard.' She added: 'But essentially... there's nothing [to prevent it].' Emilia was struck with her first brain aneurysm in 2011, shortly after wrapping the first series of Game Of Thrones. 'I was in the gym. It was obviously a massive shock,' she recalled. 'I was in hospital for three weeks. And they couldn't tell HBO for two weeks until they knew I wasn't going to die.' She added: 'I got to the hospital, and in my lucid moments, I was trying to pull out the wires to be like, "I've got to get to work! What are you doing?" 'They saved my life, the incredible NHS. I had like six weeks [in hospital] and then I was on the press tour - my first ever press tour - with morphine. 'It was super, super intense, but having Game Of Thrones was the thing that got me through.' The Games Of Thrones star, who shot to global stardom playing Daenerys Targaryen in the hit HBO fantasy series, laid bare the reality of living with the condition Following her first brain aneurysm, Emilia suffered aphasia - the inability to understand or produce speech as a result of brain disease or damage - and temporarily lost her ability to recall her own name. Two years later, the London-born actress had a second aneurysm after a surgical procedure went wrong. 'That resulted in a much bigger bleed,' she said. 'I had this big scar - they had to cut my head open. Emilia added she is now monitored regularly by medical professionals to ensure she remains healthy. 'I'm in a very good spot,' she said. 'I get my brain scanned every year. I'm in the, like, 0.001 per cent of people who survive what I've had without any real repercussions.' The actress also highlighted the concerning work culture that existed before the pandemic, revealing that Covid lockdowns were 'the first time I'd ever, ever, ever had anyone on any set be like, "You're not well? Do you need to come in? You don't have to work today."' She also disclosed a shocking pattern of working through serious injuries, listing: 'Brain haemorrhages, broken ribs, broken hips. 'I did a whole job without realising I'd broken my hip. The show must go on.' Emilia broke a rib while filming sex scenes for the racy new spy thriller, Ponies. She fractured her hip in 2015 while dancing with her Terminator Genisys co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'I fractured my hip like an idiot,' she said at the time. 'Arnold was trying to show me a dance move and I took it to a whole other special-effects level so that's the result.' The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.