(CNN) Jeremy Renner has sat down for his first interview since the New Year’s Day accident that could have killed him.
A trailer for Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph was released on Wednesday. In it, Renner speaks of being crushed by a snowplow he was operating near his home in Nevada on New Year’s Day.
Sawyer asks if he remembers the pain of being run over by the seven-ton snow cat, to which Renner replies, “Oh, everything, yeah, I was awake in a moment.”
The interview also includes emotional moments with Renner’s nephew, whom he was trying to save when the accident happened before he was hit by the machine.
Renner told Sawyer that he would not change anything that had happened.
“Yes, I would do it again because it went straight for my nephew,” he said.
Sawyer read out a litany of Renner’s injuries, including eight ribs broken in 14 places, a fractured eye socket, a collapsed lung, and his liver punctured by a rib bone.
These days, the actor said he looks in the mirror and sees “a happy man.”
“I lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I was refueled and replenished with love and titanium,” Renner said.
“Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph” will air Thursday, April 6 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.