Emilia Clarke Freezes Eggs Amid Health Struggles

has revealed that she froze her eggs aged 35 following a stressful few years in which she faced a life-threatening health battle. 

In a candid new interview, the star, 39, opened up about her 'years of sitting with a lot of pain' which saw her suffer two brain aneurysms in her 20s - the first of which happened soon after she shot to global fame in the first season of series. 

Following her health woes which saw her undergoing brain surgery twice, Emilia also had to cope with the devastating loss of her father Peter from .

And opening up to The Times, Emilia, who is currently thought to be single, told how she's put plans in place to one day become a mother following the period of ill health and immense grief in her life.

Of her decision to opt for the preservation method, she shared: 'You go through certain universal moments, like I was 35 when I froze my eggs. A lot of other women around that age are freezing their eggs.'

During the open and honest interview, the actress admitted that she felt she wanted to isolate herself following the distressing events in her life, remarking: 'I did go through a number of years where I wanted to shut my front door and sit in my nest. I can’t begin to describe how young I was, how naive I was when I started.

'I had no understanding of the industry. And then I had this life-threatening brain injury and I was so unwell and I kept thinking I was going to die. And then my dad died and that was bigger than the brain haemorrhages.'

Emilia's revelation about freezing her eggs comes after she previously shared her heartbreaking concerns that any future children she has could inherit her life-threatening condition. 

The beauty, who played Daenerys Targaryen between 2011 and 2019, laid bare the reality of living with the condition in her arteries that was linked to her aneurysms. 

Speaking on the Dear Chelsea podcast in January, 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."'

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].'

Elsewhere, the actress, who stars in new TV show Ponies, opened up on her feelings of shame and that she was 'not meant to be here' after suffering two brain aneurysms.

Emilia revealed she 'did not take care of myself at all', keeping her health issues a secret from and returning to work to do promo for Game Of Thrones barely a month later.

Following her second brain haemorrhage, Emilia said she 'shut down emotionally' and lived in constant fear that death would catch up to her.

Laying bare her health condition and its aftereffects to Elizabeth Day on her How To Fail podcast, the Me Before You star recalled the moment she suffered her first aneurysm aged 24, whilst doing a plank at the gym in 2011.

'The night before I'd had this horrible headache and I just felt restless and anxious and stressed,' she explained. 'I remember it really clearly being like I don't feel good in my brain and body. Didn't think anything of it because I got headaches quite a lot.'

'And then I arrived at the gym and like we've all had those days where you're at the gym going, "I'd rather be anywhere else, this is really hard". And it felt particularly difficult but I was in a mode of beating myself up so you're like "Come on we're doing this we're going to do it".'

Emilia went on: 'So, I arrived incredibly tired and we were doing the plank and then the closest thing to describe it to imagine an elastic band just snapping around your brain, this insane pressure.

'And I stopped and he was like, "Where does it hurt?" And I said, "My head." And my trainer was like, "That's not good".'

Describing how she was throwing up while in intense agony, she recalled the moment she realised that something was seriously wrong and explained how she recited lines from Game Of Thrones to try and block out the pain.

'And then everything feels like a blur. I crawled to the loo and was just vomiting profusely with this unbearable headache', she said.

'And in that moment, I knew I was being brain damaged. Something clicked, someone somewhere had said, "If you're throwing up and you have a headache, that's bad. That's really bad."

'So, I started wiggling my fingers and toes and I started going through all the lines from the show and I just kept saying to myself, "I'm an actor." Because I'd just got my dream job. So, I just kept saying this kind of mantra over and over and over and over again.'

Emilia said she was drifting in and out of consciousness when luckily someone found her and called for an ambulance, while another person managed to call her mum.