Renner attends the premiere, months after the crush
Jeremy Renner attended the premiere of his new series “Rennervations” on Tuesday, capping a remarkable recovery less than four months after the “Avengers” star was nearly killed in a snowplow accident.
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Jeremy Renner updates fans on his recovery, 10 months after he was crushed by a 14,000-pound snowplow on New Year’s Day.
“Since January 14th I have been exploring EVERY type of therapy,” Renner shared in an Instagram post on Monday, along with a selfie of himself in a mask while undergoing what appears to be red light therapy.
Every day, the 52-year-old has undergone “countless hours of physical therapy, peptide injections, IVs and infusions, stem cell and exosomes, red light/IR therapy, hyperbaric chamber 2.0 atmospheres, cold diving, and so on,” he wrote in the headline.
But “my biggest therapy has been my mind and the will to be here and do everything I can to recover and get better… To be exceptional… I feel like it’s my duty to do that,” he added . “I don’t want to waste my life by being spared, but rather to give back to my family, friends and all of you who gave me the strength to persevere. I thank you all. #loveandtitanium.”
Renner has been active during his recovery this year, appearing at events such as the premiere of his Disney+ series “Rennervations” in Los Angeles in April and a fan convention in Arizona in June.
“This show marked the milestone for me to get better and make sure all of our hard work wasn’t in vain,” Renner told USA TODAY at the “Rennervation” premiere. “There was no alternative. So for me it was easy. There was a place to go, a place to point to, and I felt a lot of love.”
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The “Hawkeye” actor revealed details of the accident in an interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in April. What was supposed to be a fun day of skiing with his family resulted in multiple broken bones and a week-long hospital stay.
Renner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in the snowplow accident near his Nevada home after he tried to help his nephew with a car problem. The Marvel star tried to pull his nephew’s car out of the snow with his PistenBully snow groomer. Renner pushed his body out of the large vehicle to check on his nephew without applying the parking brake and, with a misstep, fell under the tracks of the moving vehicle.
“You should be inside the vehicle when operating it. It’s a bit like driving a car with your foot outside the car,” Renner said. “It’s my mistake and I paid for it.”
The accident led, among other things, to more than 30 broken bones and a collapsed lung. “It felt like someone took the wind out of you,” Renner said. “I could see my eye with my other eye. I just remember seeing stars and a streak of tar in my other eye.”
After neighbors called 911, paramedics and firefighters rushed to the scene and got Renner into an ambulance. “I remember being intubated and handcuffed,” Renner said.
While he was intubated, he was unable to speak, but communicated with his family using sign language, signaling “I’m sorry” to his family and later writing a note on his phone once he was able .
“I’m writing notes in my phone, last words to my family,” Renner recalled through tears. “Don’t let me live on tubes or machines, and if my existence depends on drugs or painkillers, just let me go now.”
Renner said he rejects that the accident was a trauma and a negative experience.
“I change the narrative about being a victim, making a mistake, or anything else. I refuse to let that memory haunt me in this way,” he said.
“It’s my mistake and I paid for it”: Jeremy Renner describes the snow groomer accident in his first television interview
Contributor: Elise Brisco, USA TODAY