Jeremy Renner says he relives the snowplow accident “every night.”

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“I relive it every night. It’s in my visions. It’s in my dreams and my waking thoughts,” he said. “The doctor said I even broke my taint. How do you break through a flaw?”

The actor went on to express his appreciation for the hospital staff who took care of him, as well as his family and “probably divine intervention as well.”

He added: “It took the collective of all these people. That is the power of love. It’s a slow burn. Man, I’m telling you. I can barely speak.”

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Renner returned to work in January, a year after the accident, to reprise his role as Mike McLusky in the Paramount+ crime drama Mayor of Kingstown. Production on the upcoming third season of the series has now completed and the episodes are scheduled to premiere on June 2nd.

The actor revealed that he felt mixed emotions about returning to a fictional world while recovering from his physical injuries.

“I’m trying to create something true and then make the audience believe it, while I’m just trying to learn to walk again, to put one foot in front of the other and not get up in agony. “I’m doing all these things to regain my footing on the planet,” he said.

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“The idea of ​​immersing myself in a fictional world – I have to be honest, I really had to think about it: ‘Is this something I really want to do?'”

Of the challenges he experienced on set, Renner added, “They say, ‘And action!’ And I was (asleep). We realized they were making me work too hard, too many hours, too many days in a row.

“I’m willing to do anything, but what I can do is something else.”

Mayor of Kingstown airs on Paramount+.

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Sara Baalla is a freelance news reporter for Digital Spy.