About Maryam D'Abo: Maryam d'Abo is an English film and television actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.
To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.
The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
Life is good - we forget that.
I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
