Just over three months after the horrific snow plow accident that nearly killed him, “Hawkeye” actor Jeremy Renner revealed one of the more grotesque injuries he sustained that day.
Renner, walking with a cane but under his own power, made an appearance Monday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to discuss both his ongoing recovery and his new Disney+ show “Rennervations.”
Host Jimmy Kimmel introduced the “Hurt Locker” star as an “Avenger who beat Thanos, Loki, and a 14,000 lb snow plow,” referring to Renner as “indestructible” — and the studio audience responded by giving the actor a standing ovation.
Renner described the accident to Kimmel and the audience, saying, “It [was like being under] a giant metal cookie roller … It just missed every vertebrae, did not hit any organs. My brain did not swell.”
“My eye did pop out. That’s weird,” Renner continued, adding, “But I got pretty lucky that none of the organs got messed up.”
The actor was airlifted from his home near Reno, Nevada, after being almost completely crushed by the massive snowplow — and he explained during a recent interview with veteran journalist Diane Sawyer that he had spent some of his early moments in the hospital writing what he thought might be his last words to his family.
“If I was there on my own, that would have been a horrible way to die. And surely I would have. Surely. But I wasn’t alone. It was my nephew. Sweet Alex. And the rest of the cavalry came,” Renner said. “So I’m writing down notes in my phone … last words to my family.”
Despite the massive trauma, the many broken bones, and the long road to recovery, Renner also told Sawyer that he would absolutely do it again if the situation arose.
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“I’d do it again. Because it was going right at my nephew,” Renner said. He also admitted that he didn’t know quite what to expect in the early days of his injury: “I’m thinking, what does my body look like? Am I just going to be like a spine and a brain, like a science experiment?”
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