Jeremy Renner 'handcuffed to the bed' to stop hospital escapes
The Hawkeye staff suffered over 30 broken bones, a lacerated liver and a collapsed lung in January 2023 when he was run over by his snowplough, and he has candidly admitted he was probably "the worst patient ever" because of his determination to go home, despite his poor physical condition.
Asked about why he described himself as a difficult patient in his memoir My Next Breath, Jeremy told Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Jelly Roll: "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.
"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."
When he did make it home from hospital, the 54-year-old actor suffered from hallucinations because of the strong painkillers he was taking, with him having "a conversation with a curtain" on one occasion and even having an entire imaginary outing with fellow actor Jamie Foxx.
Jeremy said: "That was at home, and ... yeah. You know, as one might do, that's when you know you're not feeling any pain.
"I was talking to objects and Jamie Foxx.
"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."
The Hurt Locker actor previously credited sheer willpower for helping him pull through after his accident.
He told The Guardian newspaper: "I was bullying my body into thinking it wasn't that bad and my mind was overcoming the greatest odds it's ever come up against. My mind was saying, 'Nah!', it's part stubbornness. 'I don't want to lose this battle, this game', but the deeper part, the zoomed-out part, is I had so much to live for. I had a bunch of people waiting for me to go skiing!
"I didn't want to let them down. That became such a big thing."
Jeremy was unable to walk for two months after the accident but revealed that he only has a small number of scars as a result of the surgery he had.
He said: " I have a bunch of little scars, but only from the surgery to save my body. The whole leg is titanium from the knee down to the ankle."
The Tag actor explained that his mouth continues to be in considerable pain.
He said: "My mouth is complete chaos.
"It looks fine, but when I bite down it feels as if I'm going to break all my teeth."
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