Emilia Clarke reveals she no longer has selfies with fans, after one asked her for a photo during a panic attack.
The English actress was speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast Table Manners . She revealed she suffers from the anxiety- induced attacks.
Opening up on the podcast she said that, during a panic attack a fan actually stopped her and asked her for a photo. Despite crying and going through the difficult ordeal, she reveals that the fan was insistent on getting the snap.
On the podcast Emilia told Jessie:
‘I was genuinely walking through an airport. I suddenly starting having what I can only believe to be a panic attack brought on by complete exhaustion.
‘I was on my own. I was on the phone to my mum saying, “I feel like I can’t breathe. I don’t know what’s going on”.
She continued: “I’m there and the tears are coming out. This guy’s like, “Can I get a selfie?” And I was like, “I can’t breathe, I’m really sorry. Just having a minute.” It was after a few moments like that where I was like, “I don’t know how to do this.”
She went on to say that she now asks if she can give fans an autographs instead. She said:
‘When you do that, you have to have an interaction with that person. As opposed to someone just going, “Give us a selfie, goodbye.”
Instead she said it turns into: ‘”What’s your name? Who am I making it out to?” Then you have a chat and you’re actually having a truthful human-to-human thing. As opposed to it being this other thing that probably isn’t nice for them and isn’t nice to you.’
On losing the Game of Thrones role
In the same interview Emilia Clarke said she worried she’d lose her Game Of Thrones role after she suffered two brain aneurysms.
The 33-year-old actress – who portrayed Daenerys Targaryen in the hit HBO series experienced two health scares in 2011 and 2013, but she only went public with her ordeal earlier this year. She was devastated that she had to go through the traumatic experience while living in the public eye.
Emilia admitted: ‘With the first one, I couldn’t let them know what had happened until they (doctors) knew that I wasn’t going to die.