British stunt woman to have arm amputated after horrific accident on Resident Evil film set.

Olivia Jackson, 32, has just revealed the true extent of the shocking injuries – which included severe facial damage – she endured after hitting a metal camera arm while shooting in South Africa back in September. The experienced stunt woman, who also worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, spent two weeks in a medically-induced coma after the accident but has since been told she will have to her arm amputated. Still, she says she is just grateful to have survived.

‘My left arm is paralysed and is going to have to be amputated,’ she told The Sun.
‘My facial scarring is horrible and I wish I had my old face. But I’m truly grateful to be alive.’
Olivia, who is from Buckinghamshire, was filming a scene for the sci-fi movie, which is due to be released next year, in Johannesburg, South Africa when the incident occurred.

‘She was riding a motorbike in a straight line but due to the scene she had no protective gear or helmet,’ a source told the newspaper at the time. ‘There is a metal arm which carries the camera along. But it malfunctioned and didn’t lift up. It was totally out of her control.’Her husband David Grant, also a stunt star, rushed to be at her side and later wrote an emotional post on Facebook calling his wife his ‘inspiration’.

‘2 weeks in a coma, brain bleed, brain swelling, severed main artery in the neck, crushed & degloved face, several broken ribs, paralysed arm, shattered scapula, broken clavicle, broken humerus, broken radius & ulna, with an open wound and a 7.5 piece of bone missing, amputated thumb, torn fingers, 5 nerves torn out of the spinal cord…. not my funnest day on set,’ she said.
Milla Jovovich, who plays Alice in the Resident Evil movies, said the cast and crew were devastated by the incident had been praying for Olivia every day.