Jeremy Renner, actor known for “The Avengers,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “Mayor of Kingstown,” went through an experience on New Year’s Day 2023 that could have ended his life right there on the driveway of his own home. After extensive recovery, he has even more details to share.
Jeremy Renner’s Accident
On New Year’s Day 2023, Renner was operating a 14,000 snow plow when he realized his nephew was in danger. However, he says he made a near-fatal mistake. In his memoir, he wrote, “I didn’t engage the parking brake or disengage the steel tracks. In that moment — an innocent, critical, life-changing moment — that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life forever.”
He was thrown off the moving tracks of the snow plow and hit his head when he landed on the hard ice. That’s when the plow slowly rolled over his body. His nephew started first aid. But Renner had 38 broken bones, a collapsed lung, and his liver was pierced by one of his broken ribs.
Dying on the Ice
In his recently released memoir, “My Next Breath,” Jeremy Renner shares more details of his experience on the day of the accident. While he waited for emergency help to arrive, he says that he died.
As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired. After about thirty minutes on the ice of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing ten or twenty push-ups per minute for half an hour . . . that’s when I died.
His heart rate had decreased to just 18 beats per minute, which is effectively dead, he says. He also described what it was like in very good detail.
When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy. There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy.
I was in space: no sound, no wind, nothing save this extraordinary electricity by which I am connected to everybody and anything, anyone and everything. I am in every given moment, in one instant, magnified to a number ungovernable by math.
This sounds like quite a story! We’re heading for the local bookstore to pick up a copy and get all of the details. Jeremy Renner’s book details the accident as well as the recovery process what came about for him as a result.
What’s Next for Jeremy Renner?
Renner has managed to recover and return to film. He’s been working on “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” and Season Four of his show “Mayor of Kingstown.” We’re so glad to see he’s recovered and making movies again.
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