Jeremy Renner opens up about crash: ‘I was up the whole time’

Actor Jeremy Renner, best known for his role as Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, gave his first interview since his serious accident in January. In the interview, he revealed that he suffered 14 fractures in eight ribs and was awake the entire time.

The interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC News has yet to air on US TV and will come in the form of a special titled “Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph.” There he will recount the details of the accident with a snowplow that almost cost him his life and caused more than 30 fractures in his body.

Although the special will only air in April, ABC News released a teaser showing excerpts from interviews with Renner and his family, as well as a recording of the emergency room call made shortly after the actor’s accident.

“Everything,” Renner told Sawyer when asked how much he remembers the pain. “I was awake every moment.”

Renner was hospitalized with blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in early January after his Sno-Cat, a large snow blower weighing over 6 tons, ran over him. The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his Lake Tahoe home when the big cat squashed him.

“I see it in a pool of blood coming out of his head,” Renner’s nephew told Sawyer on the ABC News special. “I ran to him. I didn’t think he was alive.” Speaking of his nephew, Renner says he would have suffered the accident again to save him. “I would do it again.

The interview teaser includes the shocking 911 call made to save the actor’s life. In the background, Jeremy Renner can be heard screaming in pain as people tell him to “keep on fighting.” The video also shows Sawyer reading a long list of Renner’s injuries, as confirmation:

Eight ribs broken in 14 places. Broken right knee, broken right ankle, broken left tibia, broken left ankle, broken right clavicle, broken right shoulder. Face, eye socket, jaw, broken jaw. Collapsed lung. A punch in the rib, his liver – that sounds scary.

Diane Sawyer reading a list of injuries sustained by Jeremy Renner

“What will my body be like?” Renner remembers thinking about all of his injuries as he recovered. “Am I just a backbone and a brain, like a science experiment?”

The actor also cried briefly when Sawyer said, “I heard you say, in sign language, to your family, ‘I’m sorry.’

“I chose to survive. It won’t kill me at all,” he says. “I lost a lot of flesh and blood in this experience, but I was replenished and recharged with love and titanium.” The teaser features footage of Renner’s physical therapy, including him using a scooter to get around.

“When you look in the mirror, do you see a new face?” Sawyer asks, to which Renner replies, “No, I see a lucky man.”

Just days after the interview aired, Renner will make his first public appearance at the world premiere of his Disney+ series, Renovations, which takes place on April 11 at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles. The actor will participate in a question and answer session after the screening.

Since his January accident, Renner has used social media to keep his fans up to date through his physical therapy. Recently, the actor who plays Gavião Arqueiro posted a video in his Instagram stories in which he appears for the first time walking with the help of an anti-gravity treadmill. The actor captioned the post, “Now is the time for my body to rest and recover at will.”

The special Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A story of terror, survival and triumph airs April 6 on ABC. There is no information on a possible arrival in Brazil. The world premiere of Jeremy Renner’s new series for Disney+, Renovationstakes place on April 12.

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