Jeremy Renner Recalls Drug-Induced Hallucinations of Jamie Foxx During His Recovery After Snow Plow Accident
Jeremy Renner hallucinated that he spent time with Jamie Foxx while he took painkillers during his recovery from his January 2023 snowplow accident
Renner, who recounted the experience in his memoir My Next Breath, retold the anecdote on the Wednesday, July 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live
"Jamie Foxx was there, he was in my room, then we got up and we went snowmobiling. All that happened in my mind," Renner saidJeremy Renner's recovery from his January 2023 snowplow accident included hallucinations involving Jamie Foxx due to the Avengers actor's use of painkillers.
Renner, 54, recalled some of his hallucinatory experiences while he promoted his memoir My Next Breath on the Wednesday, July 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live with guest host Jelly Roll.
"Yeah, yeah, that was at home, and ... yeah. You know, as one might do, that's when you know you're not feeling any pain," Renner said, after Jelly Roll — real name Jason DeFord — noted that he read in Renner's memoir that the actor "had a conversation with a curtain" brought on by painkillers.
"I was talking to objects and Jamie Foxx," he added. "You guys know Jamie Foxx. He was there in my room. Jamie Foxx was there; he was in my room, then we got up and we went snowmobiling. All that happened in my mind. It didn't happen. It's good drugs - good drugs."
Renner nearly died when he broke dozens of bones and was left in critical condition after he was struck and crushed by a seven-ton snowplow at his home near Reno, Nev., on New Year's Day in 2023. The actor has remained very public in addressing the circumstances of the incident and his months-long recovery with fans and followers, between publishing the memoir in April and admitting as recently as a July 12 interview with The Guardian that he still experiences pain in his mouth that stems from the incident.
'My mouth is still complete chaos," he told that outlet. 'It looks fine, but when I bite down, it feels as if I'm going to break all my teeth.'
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Renner's adventures with painkillers during his hospital stay — he was released from the ICU fewer than three weeks after the Jan. 1, 2023, accident — also led to him labeling himself as "the worst patient ever" in the memoir, as Jelly Roll noted during the interview.
"Oh, yeah — that's because I kept wanting to break out of the hospital. So these poor nurses, you can imagine, I'm kind of high on whatever they're feeding me," Renner recalled. "I got tubes and epidurals and nine things stuck in me - I'm dragging the machines in the bed. I'm walking on broken legs. I never even made it to the door but once, but they handcuffed me to the bed because I was such a pain in the butt."
Renner's memoir My Next Breath is available now wherever books are sold.
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