Gal Gadot reveals new details of emergency surgery for blood clots in brain

Israeli actress Gal Gadot reveals new details on the emergency surgery she underwent last year for blood clots on the brain.

Gadot first spoke in December of the ordeal that occurred when she was eight months’ pregnant with her fourth daughter Ori, now one.

Appearing on the Jimmy Fallon show to promote her new film “Snow White,” Gadot gives further details of her “huge scare.”

“All of a sudden, I realized what it means to be scared to death,” she says, adding that she was talking about the incident to bring awareness to maybe help others with similar symptoms.

“I had a brain clot and it was a huge one. Like three, I had three,” she says, joking that “when I do something, I do it all the way.”

Gadot says she had “major headaches for three weeks.”

“I was seeing doctors and different neurologists and you’ve got to advocate for your health,” she says, recounting how doctors dismissed her concerns as “migraines or hormones.”

She says that after three weeks her mother convinced her to do an MRI.

“We did, they found out this horrible thing and we were rushed to the hospital,” she says. “And they got the baby out immediately. I went through a thrombectomy.”

She gives a shout out to Cedar Sinai hospital, saying that “they saved my life.”