Emilia Clarke reveals she now refuses to take selfies with fans – after one asked her for a photo during a panic attack
- The actress, 33, was speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast Table Manners
- She said that she was exhausted from work and had a panic attack at airport
- Experience stopped her having photos with fans and instead gives autographs
Emilia Clarke reveals she no longer has selfies with fans, after one asked her for a photo during a panic attack.
The English actress, 33, was speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast Table Manners – where she revealed she suffers from the anxiety- induced attacks.
Opening up on the podcast she said that, during a panic attack, bought on by exhaustion, 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.
The experience has meant that the Last Christmas actress now says no to selfies with fans and instead asks if they would like an autograph, as it leads to a ‘better interaction’ with them.
Emilia (pictured) was speaking to Jessie Ware on her podcast Table Manners – where she revealed she suffers from the anxiety- induced attacks
On the podcast Emilia told Jessie: ‘I was genuinely walking through an airport and 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”.
‘I’m there and the tears are coming out,’ the actress added. She went on to say that this was when a fan thought it was the perfect opportunity to ask her for a selfie.
Emilia Clarke reveals she no longer has selfies with fans, after one asked her for a photo during a panic attack
‘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.’
The bad experience has meant that she now says no to selfies with fans and instead asks if they would like an autograph, as it leads to a ‘better interaction’ with her fans
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 for the entirety of its run – experienced two health scares in 2011 and again 2013, but she only went public with her ordeal earlier this year, and 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.
In the same interview Emilia Clarke said she worried she’d lose her Game Of Thrones role after she suffered two brain aneurysms
So it took us three weeks to be like, “sorry for not answering the old emails. I’ve just been a bit, you know… I’m fine! By the way, everything’s great. I’m totally fine. I’m going to be back to work, nothing wrong’s with me. I’m all good.”‘
She added: ‘I just was, and consistently, so scared of being fired for whatever reason.
‘So I was just like… that was just me, more than [them]. I had no idea how taken care of I was.’