Jeremy Renner gives a “cathartic” play-by-play review of his snowplow accident

On January 1, 2023, Jeremy Renner was involved in a harrowing snowplow accident that nearly took his life. On May 22nd the Hawkeye And Mayor of Kingstown Actor made his first appearance at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon since his near-death experience and reported piece by piece what happened that day and in the healing phase since then.

“I thought for a second we lost you!” Jimmy Fallon told Renner at the start of his interview.

“We did that for a second… but I took some duct tape and patched everything back up. It’s all good,” Renner joked.

“They were supposed to come on the show in January,” Fallon said.

“I was pretty busy last year. I was pretty beat up,” replied Renner, who told the audience how Fallon texted him, “Dude, you’re trending!” while he was recovering in the intensive care unit.

“No, I’m dying,” Renner recalled with a laugh.

“I wanted to make you laugh! “Did it make you laugh?” Fallon asked.

“It made me laugh,” Renner said. “I wasn’t sure if he was serious.”

The Tonight Show The moderator asked Renner if it was difficult to talk about the accident. “I think it’s quite cathartic,” he said.

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Jeremy Renner describes his “brutal” snowplow accident in January 2023

Renner told Fallon that what happened to him, especially in the beginning, “was much more other people’s story than mine.”

“It happened to my parents, it happened to my poor daughter. It happened to my poor nephew. He was there,” Renner continued. “So the incident affects everyone, right?”

“But you helped your nephew,” Fallon chimed in.

Renner was on a Sno-Cat that he was used to operating. “They use it at ski resorts … for plowing slopes and things like that. It’s just one of those failure moments and, you know, terrible conditions. I’ve pulled a lot of things that got stuck in the snow,” Renner explained. “We had about 12 feet of snow in about three days. So we were trapped in the house. We didn’t have power for about three or four days, and there were about 25 of us.”

“We had fun, don’t get me wrong. But the weather was better and so I wanted to get people outside and have fun. And I had to clear the road to do that,” he continued.

“As I was pulling the truck out of the long driveway, I started to get upset… the machine got out of my hands. And she hit my nephew and crushed him between the truck and the thing,” Renner said. “So I jumped back on it – or tried to – and got caught in the tracks… and it broke 38 bones. It was brutal, dude.”

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Renner revealed that his left leg, half of his face and the right side of his back were made of metal.

The actor’s description got a little gory because that’s how it happened. “There were 14 fractures in the ribs and…you can see his eye out of the other eye because my eyeball was out,” he says. “Weird things just go through your head, don’t they? It’s like thinking, ‘Well, I guess this is real, but I’ll worry about it later.’ And I looked at my legs. They were completely twisted. ‘I’ll worry about that later’ because I had to worry about breathing first.”

When Fallon asked The injured locker Star When he panicked, Renner would say, “No. You can’t do that. You’ll die.”

“Anthony Mackie was actually one of the first people I saw when I woke up”

Renner said that shortly afterwards, cast members of the Avengers were among his many visitors.

“Anthony Mackie was actually one of the first people I saw when I woke up,” he said. “It’s like a wake. Everyone comes to say goodbye. But at least Mackie was there. He was really worried! He was in Las Vegas, so he was able to get to Reno pretty quickly.”

Although he was grateful for all the support, “I think it’s very difficult for anyone to receive that much love,” he admitted. “I was terrible at it.”

Jeremy Renner on the “wonderful lessons” his near-death experience taught him

“These are wonderful lessons, aren’t they? I can go on and on about what happened, the 45 minutes on the ice,” Renner told Fallon, saying that being tested to his limits was a “great gift.”

“I will never have a bad day for the rest of my life,” he said. “It’s impossible. That’s the gift.”

Renner has also found peace in his healing process. “When we’re too stressed or when things get too difficult – or when there are insurmountable obstacles or whatever, then it’s first putting one foot on the ground, then the other and then moving towards it,” he added .

“You’re a tough guy, buddy. You’re really great,” Fallon said. Watch Renner in full Tonight’s show Interview above.