Emilia Clarke: Actress and mum Jenny both made MBEs

"I work through it and it's fine. It's unquantifiable and undiagnosable but the fatigue is a real thing," she said.

"And I'm inclined to say that anxiety is more prevalent within me since the brain haemorrhage, but what else happened when I got a brain haemorrhage was I started Game of Thrones, so anxiety was going to happen any which way.

"There are times when someone will say: 'Do you remember that party you went to you when you were 19?', and I'll go, 'I have no recollection of that whatsoever'. Maybe that's a bit that's gone in my brain. I have those conversations in my head daily.

"But in the grand scheme of things, what I went through and the fact that I'm here talking to you is nothing short of a miracle.

"That can happen, but it's not the norm for people with brain injury, so I feel it's my duty to be able to use my vaguely working brain to talk about it."

The actress also paid tribute to her mother in light of the news about their becoming MBEs.

"The most important thing is that my mum got it," she said. "The fact that it's us together is very sweet and lovely, but the reason why the charity really exists is because of all the work that my mum does."

Jenny said: "The great honour that we've both been awarded, I don't see it at all for us, because we're just starting off on this journey to try and raise awareness, but [it is for] the tens of thousands of people that have written to us and the millions of people around the world that don't have a voice."