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Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hollywood star Jeremy Renner reveals 'beautiful' image he witnessed the moment he 'died' following horrific snowplough accident
Hollywood star Jeremy Renner has hauntingly detailed exactly what he experienced in the moment he momentarily 'died' in 2023. The two-time Oscar nominee was crushed by a 14,300-lb snowcat outside his Lake Tahoe home on New Year's Day, leaving him with 38 broken bones as well as a collapsed lung and pierced liver. He was put on life support for three days following the accident, with his family left on tenterhooks over whether he would pull through. Now, the star of Hurt Locker and The Bourne Legacy has claimed he felt 'electric peace' in the moment and witnessed his 'life review'. Recalling his near-death experience—labelling it 'the most pure, beautiful existence'—the 54-year-old also said he felt he was surrounded by 'everyone' he has ever loved. These phenomena, which have been a source of fascination for medics and the public alike for decades, are believed to occur when people are clinically 'dead', and extremely unlikely to survive. Many of those who've had such an experience claim to have seen the afterlife. Speaking on the High Performance podcast, he told host Jake Humphrey: 'It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. 'You get to see behind the curtain and there's some sort of solace that comes—look I didn't want to come back, let me put it that way.' Questioned why he didn't want to come back, he added: 'It's the most pure, beautiful existence for us to be. 'There's not much to see, that's a human experience. In your mind's eye, in your imagination what you witness when you die, you don't see, you don't have vision, you don't breathe. 'There's no time, place or space. Love is the only thing that exists. That is what you feel, that is what you experience. 'You experience your life review. You have anyone you ever loved, anything that is attached to love, there with you at all time, space and place. 'I mean everything and everyone is there, everyone. Magic. It is the most electric peace.' Experiences of seeing and hearing things while clinically dead do have some scientific basis. For years studies have shown the human brain still functions normally for a very brief time after the heart stops, although it appears to have ceased activity on regular scans. Research has also revealed that the brain can still experience sporadic bursts of activity even after an hour without oxygen, during resuscitation. Such discoveries have led to some medics calling for an overhaul of the standard practice that rules people should be declared dead after three-to-five minutes of oxygen deprivation to the brain, as these patients could still in theory be resuscitated. Renner's horrifying snowplow accident occurred after he forgot to engage the emergency brake on the monster vehicle after plowing his property. To his horror, it began careening towards his nephew, Alexander Fries, who was out helping him that day. Acting purely on instinct he said he attempted to jump back into the driver's seat and get the snowcat under control. But instead, he was pulled under its tank-like tracks, leaving him with life-threatening injuries including 38 broken bones in his ribs, knee, ankles, pelvis, face and hands. He also suffered a collapsed lung, pierced liver and major laceration in his head. In his 224-page memoir released last month and titled My Next Breath—all about his near-fatal accident—he also revealed that he laid on the ice for 45 minutes waiting for emergency vehicles to reach him. During this time his pulse bottomed out at 18 beats per minute, by which stage, 'you're basically dead', he wrote. 'I know I died—in fact, I'm sure of it,' he added. While he has undergone a remarkable recovery in just over two years, the actor still suffers one agonising injury in his mouth. 'Every time I'm talking, or eating, or sleeping, I want to scream inside because of the chaos in my mouth,' he wrote. 'My teeth will never line up properly again. One side got pushed so far offline by the Snowcat and it's unfixable.' Despite this, he added, he said he was grateful to be alive. 'I knew then, as I know now to this day and will always know: Death is not something to be afraid of. Death is something to look forward to, a return to that electric serenity outside of time.' 'Dying, you become connected to the collective energy everywhere all at once, which is itself a kind of divinity.' People have previously told MailOnline of their near death and out of body experiences such as seeing bright lights at the end of a tunnel or meeting deceased relatives. Others, meanwhile, have also recalled seeing a heavenly afterlife. While evidence on something happening in brains after clinical death is still being explored, exactly why so many people have similar experiences remains an issue of contention among experts. Some theorise that as the brain is undergoing these changes essentially the 'brakes' come off the system and this opens our perception to incredibly lucid and vivid experiences of stored memories from our lives. However, this is only a theory and other experts dispute this. Clinical death also differs from brain death. Brain death is when a person on an artificial life support machine no longer has any brain function, which means they will not regain consciousness. Such patients have no chance of recovery because their body is unable to survive without artificial life support. In the UK this means a person who has suffered brain death is legally dead. This can be difficult to comprehend for families of the deceased as they can see their loved one's chest rise and fall with every breath from the ventilator as well as their heart continuing to beat. Brain death can be caused by both illness and injury when blood and/or oxygen supplies are cut off to the vital organ. The condition is different from a vegetative state where a patient's brain function remains.
Daily Mail
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jeremy Renner claims he was made an 'insult offer' from Disney of only half his previous pay to reprise role in Hawkeye series two - after near-death accident
Actor was lucky to survive when he broke 38 bones after a 14,000lb snow plough crushed him – but now, two years on, he insists he wouldn't turn back the clock despite ongoing struggles with his injuries. The two-time Oscar nominee, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and a Disney+ series, shows no self-pity as he revealed the near-death experience has transformed his life – making it far simpler, better, and more stress-free than before. Indeed, the star of Hurt Locker and The Bourne Legacy said his first thought when he regained consciousness was that he could wipe his future packed diary of filming commitments clear – and a feeling of delight that he was free to do what he wanted. Although Renner says he has not given up on his acting, he said he will now be much more choosy and put other parts of his life first before taking roles. That means trying to look for roles in locations where he can take his 12-year-old daughter Ava with him – seeing them as opportunities for family breaks with some work thrown in. However, one role he won't be playing in the near future is his old character in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, after he said he was made an 'insult offer' of only half his previous pay to reprise his character. Renner – who often performed his own stunts in the past - slammed the pay cut, as he questioned whether it had been reduced because of his injuries. Speaking now in his most in-depth interview since his horrific accident on New Year's Day 2023, he also told how being taken to pregnant women's classes as a child, where he learned a breathing technique for childbirth, saved his life. His new book about his brush with death is even called 'My Next Breath'. Taking the positives from the accident, Renner said it had brought his entire family closer together, with his mother and sister reconciling after they had previously fallen out and stopped speaking to each other. Renner became something of a real-life action hero after he somehow emerged alive from under the wheels of his snow plough on January 1, 2023. He was trying to save his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries, from being crushed by the vehicle when he himself fell and was slowly rolled over by the wheels and blades outside his home in Lake Tahoe, California. As Renner jumped towards the stop button, he lost his footing and landed on the ice in front of the moving vehicle. His injuries included 14 broken ribs, a spinal fracture, a broken tibia, a punctured lung, a sliced liver, a broken and dislocated collarbone, a smashed-up jaw, and an eyeball that popped out its socket, which he could see with his other eye. He was airlifted to Reno hospital in Nevada for surgeries and later to Los Angeles for more operations. Speaking to Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes for a forthcoming episode of the High Performance podcast, Renner said he knew if he passed out and stopped breathing he was a 'dead man'. He said: 'Under that snowcat body awareness was huge.' Renner turned to the Lamaze childbirth breathing technique he'd picked up when his mother took him along to classes with pregnant women when he was just 11 years old. He said: 'I'm like 'Lamaze breathing'. I mean it is exactly what I was doing on the ice to survive, to manage and mitigate pain - the greatest gift my mom ever gave me, she didn't even try to give me. 'It was just like she didn't have a babysitter, so she just brought me. That was the greatest gift and tool that she ever gave me.' From the moment Renner came out of his coma, instead of feeling sorry for himself, he was already finding the positive mindset that has filled his life with determination and optimism since the accident. He still has to deal with the after-effects of his injuries – saying every joint is an issue and he can't even bite food without risking breaking a tooth because his jaw doesn't align. But amazingly, when asked if he would trade the post-accident Renner for the one before, he said he would not because he has found a simpler, less anxious life, and a deeper love with his family and friends. He said: 'I'm happy where I'm at. I don't want the version prior. 'Some discomfort here and there, if 'trade that for all the gifts that I got?' I'll stay here all day long. 'I like where I'm at. I let go of all the white noise. I love that life is wonderfully simple. I don't give value to the stuff that I gave value to because it doesn't have any value.' With his life now clearer and more straightforward, he has come to focus on the things that mean most to him and give him the greatest pleasure – with the rest, and its stresses, banished for good. He said when he first woke up 'the first thing I thought was that my calendar was clear' - because it had previously been filled with work and other commitments for the year ahead. He said: 'That's pretty blessed, pretty awesome. My whole life was planned out for me and I'm like 'that's all wiped clean'. 'I'm like 'Oh man, this is awesome, I can go do whatever I want now - all I've got to do is just get better'. That's how I started coming out of a coma and recovering. So happy that all that was gone. 'And then like 'no-one's going to come and yell at me because I can't go do their movie now - I think they're going to understand'. I kind of just got freed from the busy. 'I'm happier I give more time to myself. That was a really great, wonderful life shift for me too, just to really prioritise me without it being selfish. 'My life was reduced to one thing - it was just getting better. It's so much better keeping it simpler. I am not going to overcomplicate it anymore. It's so easy to get caught up in the small things and sweat in that small shit. 'I just can't be bothered.' Renner revealed a spin-off benefit of his accident has been the incredible closeness it has forged within his family, including his mother and his sister, who had stopped speaking after a disagreement. He said: 'My sister and my mum weren't even talking for six months. That's quickly wiped clean. Trauma like this was so uniting for my family. We all got through this scenario together.' Sadly Renner's marriage to the mother of his daughter, Canadian model Sonni Pacheco, had ended eight years before his accident, but as well as family Renner said his actor friends, including fellow Marvel stars, rallied round him. 'My relationship with my family, those that I love, deepened even more. The same happened with my friends, like with Paul Rudd. 'He came a couple times to visit me and stay with me, and Sam Rockwell, and all the people that called. 'I spent a lot of time on the phone with people if they couldn't make it. Some flew in just to come say Hi and give me some love.' While Renner, 54, has returned to acting work, he says he is now far more selective about offers and has turned some down he may have taken before. He said: 'I certainly look at where it's filmed. How long do I want to be away from my home? Or if I'm away from my home, ensure that my family can be with me.' One offer which he flatly rejected – in somewhat stronger terms than a polite no thank you - was for a return as Hawkeye for another miniseries, after being shocked to discover it involved a pay cut for longer hours. 'They asked me to do a season two, and they offered me half the money. I'm like 'I'm sorry'. 'This is not Marvel (film). This is like Disney - not even really Disney - it's just the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to go fly a kite - just at the insult offer. 'Why, did you think I'm only half the Jeremy because I got ran over. Maybe, is that why? That's why you want to pay me half of what I made on the first season'.' Renner's nephew, Alexander Fries (right), was in the snowplow's path when it began hurtling towards him. Renner tried to jump back into the driver's seat to stop it, but was dragged under But although unafraid to say no, Renner has not ruled out a comeback should a more realistic offer come along in future. He said: 'I'd still love the character, I'd still love to do it.' Asked if he ever suffers from any kind of anxiety or depression as a result of the trauma and injuries from his accident, he said: 'If I struggled with those it might have been before the incident. I think the snowcat maybe rolled that shit out of me. There's no room for that in my life. 'I'd have more anxiety going out in public before. Now there's an awareness of the incident and people treat me and see me as the man that I am, and not the movie star.'
Time of India
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jeremy Renner accepts aches and pains following his near-fatal snowplough accident
Picture Credit: Facebook Hollywood star Jeremy Renner has embraced the aches and pains he experiences since his near-fatal accident because it is "awesome" to have recovered as much as he has. The actor broke 38 bones in his body after being crushed by his snowplough in January 2023. "My swollen ankles, my back that keeps going out or my jaw that just can't seem to bite down right, it's a great reminder of an attitude that got me to here in the first place. It's awesome. This is why I can't have a bad day. I know what a bad day feels like," he told reports The actor had his chest and leg reconstructed with titanium but airport staff know to turn off metal-detectors in his presence so as not to set off alarms when travelling through security, reports He said: "(They know to) switch the buttons on (the machines), so it doesn't go off like 4th of July. I'm not an airport person, but I don't seem to have too many problems. They're pretty in on the joke (if the alarms go off) which is kind of nice." Renner doesn't always feel "secure" about running these days and was reminded of his "new reality" a few days ago on the set of 'Mayor of Kingstown'. He said: "Last night, it was dark, and I had to run up this driveway and I had dress shoes on and I'm like, 'Oh, I better put tennis shoes on because I don't feel that safe.' And when you're running, you can't really see the ground and it's kind of a dangerous thing to do anyway when you're not that secure about running. "I'm a little inflamed [today] but it's like, 'Whatever, it's all good. We're fine. Easy enough.' I was (still) faster than the guys that didn't get run over!" The 'Hurt Locker' actor previously told of how he felt his skull crack as his snowplough mowed him down. He told Men's Health magazine: "(The Snowcat) undulates, because there's four sections of tires with these metal tracks - it pulls it like a tank. I remember every undulation. "I remember my head cracking on the thing and it just pressing on me - it's exactly like you think it would feel. "An immovable object and a crushing force, and something's gotta give." "But thank God my skull didn't fully give. And then it kept going. Undulate, undulate, undulate, undulate. "Cheekbone broke, eye socket broke, and then from the crushing of getting run over by the machine, my eye bulged out. I could see my left eyeball with my right eyeball. I was screaming for a breath." Best Hindi Movies | Best Tamil Movies | Best Telugu Movies | Best english Movies | Best Malayalam Movies |
Perth Now
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jeremy Renner embraces post-accident aches and pains
Jeremy Renner has embraced the aches and pains he experiences since his near-fatal accident. The 'Mayor of Kingstown' actor broke 38 bones in his body after being crushed by his snowplough in January 2023 and though he still experiences lingering discomfort, he doesn't mind because it is "awesome" just to be alive and have made significant strides in his recovery. He told People magazine: "My swollen ankles, my back that keeps going out or my jaw that just can't seem to bite down right, it's a great reminder of an attitude that got me to here in the first place. "It's awesome. This is why I can't have a bad day. I know what a bad day feels like." The 54-year-old star had his chest and leg reconstructed with titanium but airport staff know to turn off metal-detectors in his presence so as not to set off alarms when travelling through security. He said: "[They know to] switch the buttons on [the machines], so it doesn't go off like 4th of July. I'm not an airport person, but I don't seem to have too many problems. "They're pretty in on the joke [if the alarms go off] which is kind of nice." Jeremy doesn't always feel "secure" about running these days and was reminded of his "new reality" a few days ago on the set of 'Mayor of Kingstown'. He said: "Last night, it was dark, and I had to run up this driveway and I had dress shoes on and I'm like, 'Oh, I better put tennis shoes on because I don't feel that safe.' "And when you're running, you can't really see the ground and it's kind of a dangerous thing to do anyway when you're not that secure about running. "I'm a little inflamed [today] but it's like, 'Whatever, it's all good. We're fine. Easy enough.' I was [still] faster than the guys that didn't get run over!" The 'Hurt Locker' actor previously told of how he felt his skull crack as his snowplough mowed him down. He told Men's Health magazine: '(The Snowcat) undulates, because there's four sections of tires with these metal tracks – it pulls it like a tank. I remember every undulation. 'I remember my head cracking on the thing and it just pressing on me – it's exactly like you think it would feel. 'An immovable object and a crushing force, and something's gotta give.' 'But thank God my skull didn't fully give. And then it kept going. Undulate, undulate, undulate, undulate. 'Cheekbone broke, eye socket broke, and then from the crushing of getting run over by the machine, my eye bulged out. 'I could see my left eyeball with my right eyeball. I was screaming for a breath.'
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anthony Mackie Just Spoke Out About Avengers: Doomsday, And There Are Three Specific Words That Really Stuck Out To Me
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. If you keep up to date with upcoming superhero movies, then you know Anthony Mackie is officially gearing up to suit up as Captain America again. His latest comments about the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday might be exactly what the MCU needs to hear right now. Let's break down the three specific words that really stuck out to me. While promoting Season 2 of Twisted Metal, Mackie confirmed to IGN that he's heading out this week to begin filming the epic ensemble upcoming Marvel movie. But it wasn't just the news of production that caught fans' attention; it was what the Hurt Locker star had to say about the tone of the movie that made headlines. As the Louisiana-born star shared: We're supposed to go out this week and we'll be out there doing it. Everybody's excited. I feel with the script and having the Russo brothers back, it's going to be great. I'm really excited for what this project is going to be. It's going to give the audience that old Marvel feeling that they always had. The three key words: old Marvel feeling. I'm sure the Adjustment Bureau actor's comments will make waves online, but it's how it makes my 'MCU-loving heart' sputter that I'm most interested in. After a stretch of mixed reactions to the MCU's Phase Five (we gave Mackie's Captain America: Brave New World a 2-star review), his comment feels like both a promise and a challenge: that Avengers: Doomsday will bring back the spark that made the Infinity Saga era so beloved. Disney+: from $9.99 a month w/ ad-supported planThe MCU is streaming exclusively on Disney+. Plans start at $9.99 a month for its new ad-supported plan. View Deal And if anyone can help recapture that energy, it's the Russo brothers. If you've seen all the MCU movies in order, then you know the brothers' credits include The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame, and the directing duo has long been associated with Marvel's best movie moments. Their return to helm Doomsday feels like a deliberate move to steady the MCU's course, and according to the Altered Carbon veteran, that strategy is already paying off behind the scenes. If you caught Marvel's five-and-a-half-hour stream, you probably heard them tease Doomsday's incredible cast, which has a mix of returning favorites and some big-name newcomers. We've got Paul Rudd, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Letitia Wright, Vanessa Kirby, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Simu Liu, and of course, Robert Downey Jr., making his big return to the MCU playing Doctor Doom. The cast list alone is enough to make heads spin, but also raises questions about screen time and character arcs. Still, Mackie's excitement is infectious, and his confidence in the script and the team behind it suggests that this isn't just another overstuffed crossover; it's something built with intention. For longtime Marvel fans waiting for the franchise to hit that emotional, character-driven sweet spot again, the Real Steel actor's words are encouraging. 'That old Marvel feeling' doesn't just mean big battles and quippy dialogue; it's about heart, tension, payoff, and connection. It's what made people line up for midnight premieres and cheer in packed theaters. And if Avengers: Doomsday can tap back into that magic, Marvel may be ready for its next big moment. Production kicks off this week, and even though we don't know all the details yet, the buzz is definitely building. Thanks to Anthony Mackie, we've got even more reasons to be excited about the next Avengers movie: those good old Marvel vibes!
