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The actor, who authored a book called My Final Breath, was struck by a snowplow on New Year’s Day 2023.
Two years after being run over by a snowplow and left in critical condition, Jeremy Renner is opening up about the frightening incident, revealing new details, including that he actually “died.”
In his new book, My Final Breath, Renner recounts, “As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unbeknownst to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, and my mother, I just became exhausted.” He continues, “After about 30 minutes on the ice, struggling to breathe manually, which felt like doing 10 or 20 push-ups every minute for half an hour… that’s when I died.”
“I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”
“I know I died — in fact, I’m certain of it,” Renner wrote.
He shared that the EMTs reported his “heart rate had dropped to 18,” calling it essentially a state of death.
Renner, who described feeling “an exhilarating peace,” continued, “When I died, what I experienced was a form of energy, a constant, beautiful, and incredible force. There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to observe, except for a kind of electric, two-way vision formed from strands of that unimaginable energy.”
“I could see my entire life. I could see everything all at once,” he added. “In death, there was no time, none at all, yet it was also every moment, all of time, and forever.”
Renner, 54, was struck by a snowplow on January 1, 2023, at his Lake Tahoe home, leading to severe injuries. He spent the majority of 2023 recovering and working to resume his normal activities.
Bodycam footage revealed the events of Renner’s traumatic accident, where he was “completely crushed” by his 14,000-pound PistenBully Snowcat.
“Six f—ing wheels, seventy-six steel blades, 14,000 pounds of machine, all against one human body,” he wrote in his book, according to Page Six. “I hear all the bones crack… skull, jaw, cheekbones, molars, fibula, tibia, lungs, eye sockets, cranium, pelvis, ulna, legs, arms, skin—crack, snap, crack, squeeze.”
“I had no real understanding of how badly my body was injured at that moment,” he added. “The reality was that my collapsed rib cage, along with my broken and dislocated shoulder and collarbone, had caused my lung to compress to the point of suffocation.”
“I could see my left eye with my right eye,” Renner wrote.
“With the temperatures that morning near freezing, and my body in shock, lying on an icy driveway, the biting cold began to pose a deadly threat.”
Renner was airlifted to a nearby hospital and underwent surgery after sustaining blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries.
In a prior appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Renner reflected on the accident, calling it a “great reminder of what we all should be focusing on in life.”
