Jeremy Renner says he was ‘pissed off' after being revived from near-fatal Tahoe snowplow accident
Jeremy Renner, the Oscar-nominated actor best known for his role as Hawkeye in Marvel's 'Avengers' franchise, has revealed that he was initially angry after being revived following his near-fatal snowplow accident.
In an interview on Kelly Ripa's podcast ' Let's Talk Off Camera,' Renner described his brief but powerful brush with death after he was crushed by a 14,000-pound snowcat outside his Lake Tahoe home while trying to save his nephew, Alex Fries, on New Year's Day 2023.
The Modesto actor suffered 38 broken bones, a collapsed lung and a pierced liver, spending over two weeks in the hospital and undergoing multiple surgeries.
'I didn't want to come back,' Renner told Ripa on the episode released Tuesday, May 20. 'I remember, and I was brought back and I was so pissed off.'
Renner explained that during the few minutes he was clinically dead, he experienced what he called the most exhilarating peace.'
'It's a great relief, is all I can say,' Renner said. 'It's a wonderful, wonderful relief to be removed from your body. It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. It's the highest adrenaline rush, but the peace that comes with it — it's magnificent. It's so magical.'
The experience, he said, profoundly altered his understanding of life, death and what truly matters.
'Time is a human construct,' Renner said. 'Language, all these things — it's all knowing, all experiencing, all at the same time, all at once.'
The accident, which Renner attributes to a momentary lapse when he forgot to engage the parking brake, became a turning point in his life.
'It makes me — a man that didn't want to come back — really be able to be back here and live it on my terms as the captain of my own ship,' he said. 'And get on it or off it, I don't give a f—.'
'I can't stomach the things I gave credence to prior to the accident,' said Renner. 'I invest into love and my shared relationships that I experience love with. Cause that is the only thing that you take with you.'
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