Jeremy Renner remembers ‘crushing drive’ of snow plow that bent his bones ‘like pretzels’

Actor Jeremy Renner reflected on the excruciating pain he felt when he was crushed by a snow plow in January 2023 — a terrifying ordeal that left more than 38 of his bones damaged — and how his road to recovery has left him with so many hours. But a whole new perspective.

This fear unfolded at his home in Reno, Nevada on the date of Untouched Month, when he was shoveling snow with his nephew.

The 53-year-old megastar, best known for his role as Hawkeye in Disney’s Wonder Superhero franchise, was thrown from the cab of his giant PistonBully snow groomer. While he was talking with his nephew, the 14,000-pound gadget moved forward.

Renner made a “nanosecond judgment call” and attempted to jump back into the gadget’s cab to turn it off, he recalled in an interview with Men’s Fitness published Tuesday.

However her bottom got caught between the groomer’s legs – like a tank – and he pulled her body down.

“I remember every ups and downs. I remember my head was exploding on that thing and it was just pressing down on me – it’s exactly what you think it would feel like. An immovable object and a crushing force, and something has to give. But thank God my scalp didn’t help at all,” he told Copy.

“And then it continued. To wave, to wave, to wave, to wave. The cheek bone was broken, the eye socket was broken, and then my eye came out due to being crushed by the machine. I could see the pupil of my left eye through the pupil of my right eye,” he explained.

“I was screaming to breathe. “I needed to get all my energy out of the air so I could pull the air back in,” Reiner recalled. “There was no breathing. It was a muscle I had to use to suppress, And it’s hard to use your abdominal muscles when you have 14 broken ribs and a punctured lung. I didn’t know it at the time – I just needed to get air.

Renner said he spent the first five minutes wondering how to breathe, about 10 minutes later when his neighbors noticed and called 911.

“My ribs are poking me and puncturing my lungs. Keep in mind, my leg was twisted like a pretzel – it didn’t feel like—! I’m thinking, ‘Oh, s—, this is going to hurt later.’ ‘Oh, it’s my eyeball – it’s a bit weird!’ I’m like, ‘S—, I wonder if this trouble breathing is just a cramp. Just let me take this breath, and then I can tell the family we’re not going skiing today,” he recalled.

“But then I started getting really tired. My heart rate is getting lower, lower, lower. ‘Hooooooh, hooooooh, Only 45 minutes of this exhausting breathing. But there was almost a peace with the exhaustion,” he endured.

When the EMTs arrived and he thought: “I have to turn my body over to them, because I’m ripe.”

From there, Rainer has fragmented memories of being airlifted to the sanatorium and spending days in the ICU.

He said he had more than 38 bones: his ribs, pelvis, right kneecap, right ankle, left tibia, left ankle, right clavicle, right shoulder blade, his optic socket, mandible, mandible, wrist and left foot. His lungs were destroyed and bruised, his liver was punctured by a rib bone, he had a large wound on the back of his head that was stapled close, he could no longer hear through his right eardrum. Was, and suffered injury and affected left vision.

When he regained consciousness he found himself surrounded by people.

“I said give me a pencil – I was completely intubated, huge tube came inside me – I wrote, ‘Holy f—. I’m sorry. I love you all so much.’ It sounds weird to say this, but that energy was what got me up in the first place, brother,” he said.

Reiner, who is the eldest of seven children and described an immense, intensely loving crowd of children, said he did not think carefully about his nephew’s safety in the conflict.

“I’m not letting anyone get hurt on my watch. That’s why I risked my life for my nephew. I’m not letting that thing crush him! …I can’t live with her,” he said. “If it had been the other way around, if I hadn’t come back to that thing and then it crushed him… I wouldn’t be a good person right now… I would be haunted. ,

Renner, known for roles in action franchises such as “The Avengers” and “Mission: Impossible,” said he mistakenly thought he would get hurt.

“I thought, ‘No problem, I’ve got this, I’ll just dive into these tracks, pop a button, piece of cake!’

Since the conflict he has undergone interventions such as physical therapy, Red Brite therapy and hyperbaric chamber therapy, and returned to work in Season 3 of the Paramount Plus show “Mayor of Kingstown”, where he plays Mike McCluskey.

But it certainly wasn’t a very easy comeback. He said he was “delicate” during the filming on 9 January.

“We were walking around on the ice, and I had no energy. I was feeling sleepy. But I think this will be the best season ever because of it. Don’t get me wrong, Mike is still Mike – he’s still the guy you want as your friend. But it’s more emotional, because I’m more emotional.”

An important part of his return to work was a change in attitude.

“The last thing I wanted to do — to be honest with you, I almost pulled out of shooting and doing this show — was fantasy… I have to be here in actual reality, because these bones and these joints — and I have to say fake lines and pretend to be… he explained. “Here’s how I moved through it, because I only have control over my attitude: I’m coming to Pittsburgh to heal my body and get better every day, and I’m going to do this show on the sidelines.” But it is. Instead of the opposite.”

This struggle also taught him to get immense love from the public and friends.

“There are a lot of people who love me. And I had no idea. I had to learn how to receive all this love, and it’s not easy. Even from people you don’t even know. Why is this accident like this? But then I said, ‘F—, stop asking why. Just get it,” he said. “I was famous for having a bow and arrows; Now I’m famous for overcoming something as a man.