Star Wars stuntwoman to lose arm after accident

Olivia Jackson says her arm will be amputated after the accident on the set of the latest Resident Evil film. Photo/Instagram

A South African stuntwoman who appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens will lose her arm after a horrific accident on the set of the new Resident Evil film.

Olivia Jackson is to have her arm amputated after a motorbike stunt went wrong and she hit a metal camera arm, reported The Sun.

"My left arm is paralysed and is going to have to be amputated," she told the British tabloid.

"My facial scarring is horrible and I wish I had my old face. But I'm truly grateful to be alive."

Jackson spent two weeks in a coma after the September accident on the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

A source detailed the accident to The Sun, saying it wasn't a dangerous stunt but Jackson wasn't wearing protective gear.

"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. She had no chance."

Jackson revealed her injuries in a Facebook post: "2 weeks in a coma, brain bleed, brain swelling, severed main artery in the neck, crushed & degloved face, several broken ribs, paralyzed 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."

Jackson, 34, has also appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy and Mad Max: Fury Road.

- nzherald.co.nz