Jeremy Renner Gets Emotional Over Near-Death Snowplow Accident In Shocking First Interview: 'I Chose To Survive'
29.03.2023 - 20:31
/ perezhilton.com
Jeremy Renner is fighting to survive — and once again soon, to thrive.
Of course, the 52-year-old actor was severely injured back on New Year’s Day in a snowplow accident at his home in rural northern Nevada. The Hawkeye superstar nearly died after breaking more than two dozen bones and sustaining “blunt chest trauma” in the awful incident.
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Now, in a new interview about that moment and his months of physical therapy afterwards, Renner is speaking out. The action star met with ABC News host Diane Sawyer for an in-depth interview about the awful event. That full interview will air next week, on Thursday, April 6. However, early on Wednesday morning, the network teased a small portion of Renner’s chat with the longtime journalist.
In a three-minute-long preview clip from the sit-down, the Avengers star gets emotional while discussing what he’s been through, and what it took for him to survive the awful snowplow mishap.
At the start of the clip, Sawyer asked Renner if he remembers the events of that day — including the pain. Without missing a beat, he replied:
The interview teaser played back a chilling audio clip of the first 911 call that came in about Jeremy’s accident, too.
And Renner’s nephew — the young man he pushed out of the way of the snowplow as it was bearing down — is also interviewed for the show. The young man got emotional while recalling the moment he first realized his uncle had been run over by the large snow removal machine:
Holy s**t…
But Jeremy miraculously survived the accident and subsequent surgeries, of course. And he’d do it again, too. He told Sawyer that his desire came down to saving his nephew more than anything