Sometimes it pays to have your heart broken.

An 18-year-old who was among some 3,000 teens turned away from an autograph session with Twilight star Robert Pattinson when the crowd at a San Francisco mall grew unruly was surprised during a Thursday taping of The Tyra Banks Show -- by Pattinson himself.

Oh yeah, and she won the young vampire's Volvo, too.

Police cancelled an autograph session at the mall when people began pushing their way inside. At least one girl was injured.

The Tyra Banks Show flew Kuhne and two other teenagers involved in the crush to New York for a Twilight-themed show -- though they had no idea Pattinson would be there. The girls were surprised as they participated in a pie-eating contest, with the prize being Twilight memorabilia.

"I still can't believe they are making you guys do this," Pattinson said as the pie-eating wore on.

Kuhne was blindfolded and led outside to discover that the "memorabilia" she'd won was the Volvo that Pattinson's character drives in the movie.

"I feel absolutely amazing, ecstatic," said Kuhne, who works at a coffee shop and did not previously own a car. "I can't believe everything that just happened did."