Jeremy Renner is rehashing his 2023 snowplow accident in his new memoir, My Next Breath, out April 29.
The 54-year-old actor was crushed by the 14,000-pound snowplow he was driving on New Year's Day 2023. He made a "critical" error that almost cost him his life.
"I didn’t engage the parking brake or disengage the steel tracks. In that moment – an innocent, critical, life-changing moment – that tiny but monumental slip of the mind would change the course of my life forever," he wrote in an excerpt obtained by The Guardian.
While trying to hit the "stop" button to avoid the snowplow hitting his nephew Alexander Fries, his foot slipped. As he fell the PistenBully snowcat ran over him at his Reno, NV home. The gruesome event left him with 38 broken bones, a collapsed lung, and his liver pierced by a broken rib. Still, the trauma of losing "six quarts of blood" quickly took its toll.
“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired,” Renner wrote, via Us Weekly. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour … that’s when I died. I died, right there on the driveway to my house.”
It took first responders 45 minutes to arrive on the scene due to the snowy conditions, so the Marvel Universe star was in bad shape. While Fries and a neighbor tended to him, Renner turned "a gray-green color” and then closed his eyes.
“I know I died — in fact, I’m sure of it,” he explained in the book while noting his “heart rate had bottomed out at 18.”
“I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once,” Renner wrote. “In death, there was no time, no time at all, yet it was also all time and forever.”
Related: Jeremy Renner Reveals Massive Scars From Near-Fatal Snowplow Accident
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