Rose McGowan was seriously injured on the set of her director fiance Robert Rodriguez’s comic book action film Red Sonja.

The former Charmed star, 36, will play the animated heroine in a remake of the 1985 film later this year. Nonetheless, Rose suffered damage to several limbs and nerves while performing a series of stunts for the movie, requiring her to undergo surgery.

“I had wrist and elbow surgery and they took part of my elbow out,” she told FOX News Wednesday. “I had really bad nerve damage from doing stunts – I do a lot of my own stunts. I could no longer use my arm, but now I can hold a fork and drive so we’re working our way up.”

She added: “It’ll probably be another six months of rehab, but it’s the price you pay for being really limber and being able to do back flips.”