Thursday, June 9, 2016

Motorcycle accident on the set: Jovovich’s stunt woman loses arm – n-tv.de NEWS


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 Around three quarters of a year ago, causing a fatal accident during the filming of the upcoming “Resident Evil” strips. Olivia Jackson, Double of Hollywood star Milla Jovovich is seriously injured -. With dramatic consequences

 


 
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Deep is Milla Jovovich turned on 15 September of last year on Facebook to their fans: “I am writing this post with a heavy heart because a terrible accident has our set on Saturday, September 5, shaken my incredibly talented. stunt double, Olivia Jackson, collided during a motorcycle stunts with a camera crane and had to be hospitalized with various serious injuries “

the accident happened during the filming of” Resident Evil.: the Final Chapter “- the youngest branch of the horror film series is in 2017 expected to be released. Although the 32-year-old stunt woman soon no longer was in critical condition, the list of their injuries appeared even as from the horrors: “Two weeks coma, brain hemorrhage, brain swelling, separate main artery in the neck, smashed and aufgeschürftes face, several broken ribs, a paralyzed arm , a fragmented scapula, a broken collarbone, a broken arm, broken ulna and radius with an open wound and a missing bone portion, an amputated thumb, mangled fingers, five torn from the spinal nerves “- as summed up Jackson several weeks after the accident her martyrdom together on Facebook.

“grateful to be alive”

But even then it was found that the South African living in London does not want to take the joy of life. “Not my funniest day on the set,” she commented ironically the horrors that had befallen her. But it should not stay. Already in December 2015 revealed Jackson of the British newspaper “The Sun” that her paralyzed left arm could not be saved and had to be amputated. “The scars on my face are terrible and I wish me back my old face. But I’m really grateful to be alive,” she added.

Now the doctors have made the inevitable engagement as Jackson documented with a photo collage for Instagram. On the cutting out the stunt woman can be seen both before surgery with crippled arm and after amputation with bandage and a smile on her face. “Goodbye to my atrophied arm, hello to my butt,” she writes – and are again admirable life boldly: “So I have not introduced my life, but I just have to accept what I have and go onward and upward. “

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At the same time Jackson thanked her team for her husband, David Grant, whom she had married only four months before her accident. Grant had himself expressed about a month ago in Instagram to his wife: “For their strength and determination I love them every day more and more Go on, girl I’ll always be with you!”

Before her accident in the “Resident Evil” set had been involved in several major Hollywood productions Jackson. So it was about the stunt double of Karen Gillan in “Guardians of the Galaxy” and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Also in “Star Wars: The Awakening of power”, she appeared as a stunt woman

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  Source: n-tv.de
 


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