Emilia Clarke fears her life-threatening condition could be inherited by her future children

Appearing on a recent episode of the Dear Chelsea podcast, Emilia told host Chelsea Handler: "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 Game of Thrones alum said there is nothing to prevent brain haemorrhages, but she does not "take drugs, do stuff that's going to raise your blood pressure, [or] work too hard" to decrease her risk of triggering one.

The star suffered her first brain aneurysm - a swelling in a blood vessel in the brain - in 2011 after she filmed the first series of Game of Thrones.

And Emilia - best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series - admitted that the recovery was "non-existent because I didn't have time".

She recalled: "I was in the gym. It was a massive shock. I was rushed to hospital. They saved my life. I then was in hospital for three weeks, and they couldn't tell HBO for two weeks until they knew I wasn't going to die, that this happened.

"And I got to the hospital, and in my lucid moments, I was trying to pull out the wires to be like, 'I gotta get to work. What are you doing?' And so they saved my life, the incredible NHS.

"And then I had like six weeks, maybe. And then I was on my first-ever press tour with morphine.

"It was super, super intense, but having Game of Thrones and having the job was the thing that got me through."

In 2013, Emilia suffered another brain aneurysm because a surgical procedure went wrong.

The Solo: A Star Wars Story cast member said: "That resulted in a much bigger bleed. I had this big scar. They had to crack my head open."

Emilia insisted she is in a "very good spot" now because she gets her "brain scanned every year".

The actress added: "I'm in like 0.001 per cent of people who survive what I've had without any real repercussions."

Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Emilia shockingly revealed that she has worked despite having serious injuries.

The Secret Invasion star shared: "Broken ribs, broken hips. I did a whole job without realising I'd broken my hip. The show must go on."

Elsewhere, Emilia previously admitted she would love to have children one day - even suggesting that she is more keen to have children than to get married.

In 2017, she told Elle: "Yes, I want babies. I don't know about marriage. That's probably quite a painfully millennial thing to say. But I do want to find a human that you'd want to create a family with."