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Jeremy Renner said he thought he was going to die and will now live with metal in his ribcage and plates in his face after his near-fatal snowplow accident.
The Mayor of Kingston And Hawkeye actor spoke to the ABC News anchor for Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A story of terror, survival and triumph, aired Thursday night. The sitdown served as his first talk about the harrowing New Year’s Day snowplow accident in which he suffered more than 30 broken bones after being pulled under a 14,300-pound snowcat on Jan. 1.
In a Washoe County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Renner suffered serious injuries when he tried to save his cousin, Alex Fries, from being run over by his personal PistenBully after it started sliding in the snow when the break was not set properly. Renner, who said he was awake throughout the painful experience, told Sawyer that he had “lost a lot of flesh and bone during this experience”, with injuries so severe that he was convinced he was going to die.
“Had I been there alone it would have been a horrible way to die, and I certainly would have. Sure,” he said of his life-threatening injuries. Sure, but I wasn’t the only one. I was with my nephew, dear Alex.”
Renner admitted that he had even considered end-of-life decisions with his family and kept his daughter from seeing him right after the accident. “Don’t make me live on tubes on a machine,” Renner said of a conversation with his family. “If my existence depends on drugs and painkillers, let me go now.”
Renner wasn’t the only one who thought he was going to die. “At one point I was holding his head – I couldn’t take my eyes off him because I didn’t want him to stray,” Barb Fletcher, Renner’s neighbor and one of the first to come to his rescue, told Sawyer. . “And at one point he just got a clammy feeling and he got this gray-green color. And I feel in my heart like I lost him for a moment. He closed his eyes. I really feel like he died for a few seconds.
“It was the blood, the amount of blood, he was just in so much pain and the noises coming out of him,” said Richard Kovatch, Renner’s neighbor and Fletcher’s partner, who noted that the actor was in an “exasperating” condition. when he was found. “There was so much blood in the snow, and when I looked at his head, it seemed to me to be wide open and I could see white. I don’t know if that was his skull, maybe it was just my imagination, but that’s what I thought I saw.”
Renner’s ribcage has been rebuilt with metal that will stay there for life, along with metal plates in his face to support his eye socket and titanium rods in one of his legs. According to the actor, his jaw is held together with rubber bands and screws. “Jeremy is in pain, wide awake. He was delirious, he was just miserable,” his sister, Kim Renner, recalled of his time around the surgeries. “It hurt. He cried with misery just because he couldn’t sleep.”
“This whole side of my body, I don’t really feel sensitivity to touch, but it will grow. I can feel it, the change in two months,” he said, noting that he also has no feeling in his face, although his vision is fine. “I hardly feel any of my teeth on the top because they went in my face to put in two plates because of an orbital tear.”
“They put screws in my skull and my jaw to hold it with rubber bands,” he added, noting that he was in pain. “I’m learning to talk again.”
Renner said he is still triggered by the event and has lost sleep preparing for the interview, but he would do it again. “I refuse to let that be a trauma and a negative experience,” he said. “That is a moment that I am proud of, because I would not let that happen to my nephew. I change the story of being a victim or making a mistake or whatever. I refused to be haunted by that memory.”
But he does take responsibility for what ultimately happened. “So I’m writing notes on my phone, last words to my family,” Renner told Sawyer of his belief that he would die while in the hospital, using ASL in the evening to apologize to his family . “I signed because I am. I’m sorry. I did that to them. That’s my responsibility. No, I feel bad that my actions caused so much pain.
During the first half of the nearly hour-long sitdown, Renner recounted moment-by-moment what happened as he attempted to clear snow from his property after a severe weather event left a three-foot buildup in the Mt. Rose Highway area of Nevada.
During his conversation with Sawyer, he and his cousin Alex Fries revealed that the actor had asked Fries to help him clear snow from his property where he had invited his extended family to stay for the New Year’s holiday. “Everyone is getting dressed to go skiing there, and then my cousin came to help me because a lot of things get stuck,” Renner recalls going out to use the snowcat, a machine he says is a necessity to have with his home due to the mountainous and snowy conditions of the area.
Renner was pulling one of the snowcat family cars out of the driveway into the street when the accident occurred. Fries had just loosened a chain connecting the front of the truck to the back of the snowcat, “to work the last two or three feet of the ramp to get him onto the paved area,” Renner explained. The actor turned the snowplow, which began to slide but struggled to see his nephew.
Renner opened the door and leaned out to get Fries in his field of vision, but without putting on the snowcat. “I happen to be the dummy who’s kind of on the dang track to see if my cousin’s there,” he said. “I should be in the vehicle when you’re operating. It’s like driving a car with your foot outside the car, you know what I mean? But yes, it was what it was. It is my mistake. And I paid for it.”
The vehicle continued to roll forward and he fell off the side of the machine where he could see Alex “squeezed” between them. Renner attempted to jump back into the machine to “take it out” and landed on the snowcat’s track before being flung in front of it while remembering yelling, “Not today, you son of a bitch.”
The actor admitted that he can’t remember much more than lying face down, being able to see one of his eyes popping out of his eye socket with the other and feeling his toes, ankles, legs and then chest being crushed. “It’s just as you imagined,” he told Sawyer as he was run over by the snowcat on icy asphalt. “I wish it was on snow. It felt like someone was taking the wind out of me. There is too much going on in the body to feel pain. It’s everything. It’s like your soul could be in pain.”
Fries – after nearly getting stuck in the truck after jumping in to avoid the still-sliding snowcat – ran towards Renner but “didn’t think he was alive”. He then sought help nearby and saw Kovach’s garage door open.
“I actually had to ask his cousin, ‘Was that Jeremy?’ because of how he had looked,” Kovatch said, pointing out how unrecognizable Renner was because of his injuries when he saw him. “So steadily and for so long [he was] trying to breathe, and it seemed like he just gave up.
At a media event on Jan. 3, authorities shared that emergency responders — who came from the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District and REMSA Health — struggled to reach Renner, with firefighters arriving 21 minutes after the emergency call, followed by the North Lake Tahoe ambulance whose nurse would stick needles in Renner’s chest to let him breathe. The special briefly describes how they had to reach him from opposite sides of the mountain, where conditions were so bad that a firefighter fell and broke his leg trying to reach Renner.
At the hospital, Renner was categorized as a red trauma case – the highest you can go. Initial reports indicated that the actor and producer had been hospitalized in a critical but stable condition following the accident before it was revealed a day later that he had undergone surgery following blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. He says he was intubated and treated for a broken face and eye socket, eight ribs broken in 14 places, a broken right knee, left tibia, collarbone, right shoulder and ankles, along with a punctured lung and a large head laceration.
On Jan. 3, just two days after the incident — and on the same day the local sheriff’s department held a press conference clarifying details about what Sheriff Darin Balaam called a “tragic accident” — Renner posted his first public statement while still in police custody. hospital lay. The Runners’ nerves star continued to provide updates on his hospitalization, including a video from his bed. He spent several weeks in the hospital and even celebrated his 52nd birthday there before revealing in an Instagram story on Jan. 19 that he had been released from the hospital.
From there the Avengers star began documenting his home journey to recovery. That includes using an anti-gravity treadmill, strengthening exercises, and electrical stimulation workouts. During the special, Renner, who was shooting at his home in LA, said that when he looks in the mirror, he not only “sees a happy man,” but that he’s “refueled and filled with love and titanium again.” hoping that walking on the Runners’ nerves Red carpet.