Emilia Clarke Asks Fans Not To Take Selfies With Her Anymore

The ‘Game Of Throwns’ star was thrown off guard whilst being asked for a photo by a fan during a panic attack

During an interview with Jessie Ware on the Table Manners podcast, Emilia Clark spoke about a panic attack experience and how it alerted the way she wants to interact with fans in the future.

She said, “I was genuinely walking through an airport and I suddenly started having what I can only believe to be a panic attack brought on by complete exhaustion,” she said. “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. I’m crying and crying, 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.”

The incident provoked the Mother of Dragons to announce that she is taking a break from selfies with fans, but will still be signing autographs. The actress also said she finds the interaction of signing and having small talk with fans more meaningful.

“When you do that, you have to have an interaction with that person, as opposed to someone just going, ‘Oi, give us a selfie, goodbye,’” explained the actress. “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.”