Pirates stuntman suffers stress after set fall

Pirates of the Caribbean stuntman Tony Angelotti still suffers horrific nightmares after a fall on the set left him in a wheelchair.

The tough guy, who was honoured at last Sunday's Taurus World Stunt Awards, became a human yo-yo when he fell from a ship's mast during filming on Pirates sequel At World's End, and almost snapped his pelvis.

He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "I was harnessed from my side and down to my ankle on one side, so one side of me kept going and the other side stopped like a human wishbone."

Angelotti, who doubled for Johnny Depp in the Pirates movies, spent four days in intensive care after the accident and lost six units of blood.

He then had to learn to walk again.

He has since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome.

He adds: "I would wake up at three in the morning and the accident would be, like, reliving in my head and I couldn't get back to sleep. There's no explaining it."