Emilia Clarke Opens Up on Troubling Time Fan Tried to Get a Selfie With Her While She Was Having a Panic Attack

Khalessi has spoken, and she is asking for fans to respect her boundaries.

Insider reports that Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke recently stopped by the Table Manners podcast and explained why she is no longer taking pictures with fans. She recalled a particularly troubling instance, saying:

“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. I was on my own. I was on the phone to my mom saying: 'I feel like I can't breathe. I don't know what's going on.'”

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She then explained that after her mom told her to sit down, she was approached by a brazen GoT fan who clearly didn’t catch on to what was happening to her. Clarke continued:

“After 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.’”

Though Clarke won’t be bending the knee to random selfie requests, she isn't completely disregarding her fans. The Last Christmas actor says she will still sign autographs because she thinks it is more personal. She added:

“When you do that, you have to have an interaction with that person, as opposed to someone just going, 'Give us a selfie, goodbye’. 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.”

If Clarke signs autographs using Dany's full title, fans could have a long chat with this queen.