A British stunt woman is to lose her arm after suffering an horrific accident on the set of Resident Evil.

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’.

‘She’s my inspiration and my world and one tuff little motherf*****,’ he wrote. ‘She’s fighting hard.’

Olivia, who was a stunt double for Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road as well as Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy, later took to social media a few weeks after the incident, revealing that she’d lost a thumb.

Milla Jovovich stars in the Resident Evil movies (Picture: Screen Gems)

‘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.

A spokesperson for Constantin Film issued this statement after the accident:

‘Olivia Jackson, a stunt performer on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, was injured during a stunt motorbike action sequence on Saturday just outside Johannesburg. Jackson, who is an experienced and accomplished stunt performer, sustained injury to her left hand and arm, face, head and shoulder; she is now stable and under medical care.

‘Our thoughts and prayers are with Olivia and her family during her recovery process.’



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