{"id":21328,"date":"2026-06-03T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rupert-everett-my-best-friends-wedding-actor-says-hes-almost-crippled-over-fitness-routine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:56:49","slug":"rupert-everett-my-best-friends-wedding-actor-says-hes-almost-crippled-over-fitness-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rupert-everett-my-best-friends-wedding-actor-says-hes-almost-crippled-over-fitness-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Everett, My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding Actor, Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Almost Crippled&#8221; Over Fitness Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260602\/36a6294e-8759-484b-87e6-7e47105ef941_1780451088.jpg?fit=around%7C1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"adp-vgallery-title\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Emilia Clarke&rsquo;s Brain Aneurysm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\" readability=\"78.522821576763\">\n<p><strong>Emilia Clarke<\/strong> filmed battle scenes for <em>Game of Thrones,<\/em> but in 2019, she published an essay in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> titled &ldquo;A Battle for My Life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Having a bad headache at the gym, &ldquo;I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,&rdquo; the actress wrote. &ldquo;Meanwhile, the pain&mdash;shooting, stabbing, constricting pain&mdash;was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain,&rdquo; the Emmy nominee added. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d had an aneurysm, an arterial rupture.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Emilia had immediate surgery to seal the aneurysm, calling the pain &ldquo;unbearable.&rdquo; While she was recovering, she continued, she experienced aphasia and was &ldquo;muttering nonsense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>A week later, &ldquo;the aphasia passed,&rdquo; Emilia added, and she left the hospital a month after being admitted.<\/p>\n<p>At a 2013 brain scan, she learned a growth &ldquo;doubled in size&rdquo; and that she needed surgery again.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When they woke me, I was screaming in pain,&rdquo; she wrote. &ldquo;The procedure had failed. I had a massive bleed and the doctors made it plain that my chances of surviving were precarious if they didn&rsquo;t operate again. This time they needed to access my brain in the old-fashioned way&mdash;through my skull.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Emilia shared, she&rsquo;s now &ldquo;at a hundred per cent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Rupert Everett, My Best Friend&rsquo;s Wedding Actor, Says He&rsquo;s &ldquo;Almost Crippled&rdquo; Over Fitness Routine<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emilia Clarke&rsquo;s Brain Aneurysm Emilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019, she published an essay in The New Yorker titled &ldquo;A Battle for My Life.&rdquo; Having a bad headache at the gym, &ldquo;I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,&rdquo; the actress wrote&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/rupert-everett-my-best-friends-wedding-actor-says-hes-almost-crippled-over-fitness-routine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Rupert Everett, My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding Actor, Says He&#8217;s &#8220;Almost Crippled&#8221; Over Fitness Routine&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}