Injured Transformers 3 extra gets £11.8m settlement

An extra who was injured on the set of ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ has been awarded a whopping £11.8 million in damages.

Injury… Gabriella Cedillo (Credit: Facebook)Gabriella Cedillo, 26, was injured on the Indiana set in 2010. She was one of 80 extras driving their own cars when a cable pulling a stunt vehicle travelling the opposite direction snapped and crashed through her windshield, hitting her head. She was rushed to hospital for surgery but suffered permanent ‘brain impairment’.

At the time a witness said: “The cable snapped, and the cable went into the westbound lane where we were at and hit the girl’s car, smashed the windshield.

“From the way it looked, I don’t know if she was knocked out immediately or not but the… vehicle just went, it just kept going.”

Cedillo was not a trained stunt person; instead she was a regular extra paid $25 (£15) a day.

Her lawyer Todd Smith said: “She lost about a third of the top of her head” and added that a “completely inadequate superficial weld had been applied in a failed effort to secure the bracket to the [stunt] car.”

He told RadarOnline back in February: “She’s still going through rehabilitation, multiple sessions per week, to try and gain back whatever functions she’s going to have. She’s very weak; she’s got a lot of cognitive deficits.”

“She appears to be quite impaired with her ability to understand and appreciate everything. I’m not saying she’s not coping…and considering where people thought she would be, she’s fortunate.

“But she has the function of a small child right now.”

Bayhem… Transformers sequel was action-packed (Credit: Paramount)

According to the lawsuit, movie studio Paramount originally offered to pay Cedillo’s medical bills (around £250,000), but “did everything they could to avoid payment.

“Gabriela was forced onto Public aid to pay for her medical bills.”

According to her brother Adam, this was not the first time she had appeared as an extra. He told NBC that she’d been trying to break into the film industry. He said: “She always wanted to be in movies.”

Paramount has not commented.