Emilia Clarke will have a virtual dinner with fans to raise money for coronavirus relief

It’s safe to say that Drogo won’t be on hand to help barbecue her dinner, but the mother of dragons, Queen Daenerys herself, is ready to have a meal with 12 fans. All while practicing social distancing, of course. Emilia Clarke revealed that if you donate to her charity, SameYou, by clicking a special link on her Instagram profile, your name could be one of the lucky dozen randomly drawn to have a virtual dinner party with her.The Game of Thrones star made the reveal on Instagram on March 30, explaining that she wants to raise £250,000 for the charity. The organization typically helps people recovering from brain injuries and strokes, but it recently launched a COVID-19 branch aimed at making more beds available for coronavirus patients and getting those with brain injuries more support to recover at home. “We’ll cook [dinner] together and eat it together. And we will discuss lots of things — isolation and fear and also funny videos,” Clarke said in a video. “And, you know, the fact that I can’t really cook. So it’s going to be fun.”

 

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Dearest ones, from my isolation booth I write to you with a plea for help! Due to the current frightening and ever changing coronavirus emergency please would you help me raise £250,000, by donating through the link in my Bio, to provide stroke and brain injury patients with essential support!! This fund will also help in freeing up the hospital beds needed to deal with the pandemic, to care for those who also need a space to heal. 100% of your generosity will fund virtual rehab clinic support in the coming weeks... a very big task and a very big ask but you are all very big hearted souls so I know you’ll want to help me help them! ❤️?❤️ @sameyouorg #togethertogethertogether

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“This fund will also help in freeing up the hospital beds needed to deal with the pandemic, to care for those who also need a space to heal,” she wrote in her accompanying post. “100% of your generosity will fund a virtual rehab clinic support in the coming weeks... a very big task and a very big ask but you are all very big hearted souls so I know you’ll want to help me help them!”The charity is obviously a dear one to Clarke, who faced life-threatening aneurysms while filming the HBO series that made her famous. She opened up about the experience in a 2019 essay for The New Yorker, revealing that just after she had finished filming the first season of Game of Thrones in 2011 she was rushed to the hospital where she had life-saving brain surgery.[video_embed id='-1']RELATED: Emilia Clarke shares her secret to dealing with self-doubt[/video_embed]“Even before we began filming Season 2, I was deeply unsure of myself. I was often so woozy, so weak, that I thought I was going to die. Staying at a hotel in London during a publicity tour, I vividly remember thinking, I can’t keep up or think or breathe, much less try to be charming. I sipped on morphine in between interviews,” she wrote. “… If I am truly being honest, every minute of every day I thought I was going to die.”Eventually, after more excruciatingly painful surgeries, Clarke recovered and she never spoke about any of it while filming the series; her 2019 essay was essentially to introduce SameYou. “We are creating a virtual rehabilitation clinic so brain injury survivors have somewhere to go and somewhere to feel safe and somewhere to not feel so alone and isolated, which I think is a good thing. We need to do all we can to release as many beds as possible to free up our hardworking NHS,” Clarke also said in her post.Since wrapping Thrones, Clarke has stayed pretty busy. She starred in two big screen films, Last Christmas and Above Suspicion. She also nabbed a role starring in The Seagull, a play at the Playhouse Theatre in London that was supposed to kick off in mid-March but has since been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Like many other celebrities, Clarke has been social distancing to help stop the spread of the virus. Perhaps this dinner isn’t just about raising money, and Emilia, like the rest of us, could use a little company.After all, dragons are notoriously bad indoor pets.[video_embed id='1931357']Before you go: Ryan Reynolds made a special online appearance at Toronto's Sick Kids hospital[/video_embed]