--- title: Emilia Clarke Says No Selfies After Panic Attack Fan Photo description: 'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke is refusing selfies after a fan approached her for a photo while she was having a panic attack. canonical: https://time.com/5753819/emilia-clarke-no-selfies/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-20T17:22:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-14T08:50:28.872Z og:title: Emilia Clarke Says No Selfies After Panic Attack Fan Photo og:description: Here's her reasoning why og:url: https://time.com/5753819/emilia-clarke-no-selfies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4bddf3e9439f0a/698a07dc457a52e71cd634d3/Emilia-Clarke-no-selfies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Fashion Awards 2019 - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emilia Clarke Says No Selfies After Panic Attack Fan Photo twitter:description: Here's her reasoning why twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4bddf3e9439f0a/698a07dc457a52e71cd634d3/Emilia-Clarke-no-selfies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emilia Clarke Says No More Fan Photos After Being Approached During a Panic Attack > Sponsored content. 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Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge captures startling renaissance inspired photographs for TIME's Game of Thrones issue._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 20, 2019 5:22 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 20, 2019 5:22 PM UTC [Emilia Clarke](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567865/emilia-clarke/) says she won’t be [taking selfies with fans](https://time.com/4326097/justin-bieber-no-fan-photos/) anymore after she was approached by a fan for a photo while she was suffering from a panic attack. In an [interview](https://play.acast.com/s/tablemanners/684a1dbb-c57a-4d6b-b426-3ef136622a6f) with Jessie Ware on the _Table Manners_ podcast, the [_Game of Thrones_](https://time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/) star said that she began reconsidering how she wanted to interact with her fans after she began having a panic attack in an airport. “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.'” Clarke later explained that while she won’t be taking any selfies or photos anytime soon, she’s still happy to sign something for fans, which she feels is a more engaging experience. “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,'” she said, noting that when people ask for a selfie, she wants to be able to give them the experience they’re after. “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.” ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] This flower. That hand. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] It's insane, [ LAUGH ] it's truly insane. I mean, there's been lots firsts because of Game of Thrones, but this takes the biscuit. [ LAUGH ] It's pretty incredible. I never thought in a million years. Is that this would be happening. 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