Jeremy Renner has revealed the reason why he was "so p***** off" to be revived after "dying" from a snowplow accident.
On New Year’s Day 2023, the 54-year-old Marvel actor was nearly killed in a horrific accident outside his Lake Tahoe home when his Pistenbully snowplow ran him over.
The incident left Renner with several broken bones, severe blood loss totaling six quarts, and dangerously low body temperature due to hypothermia.
According to a report from the Nevada sheriff’s office, the Hawkeye actor had been trying to stop the snowplow from sliding toward his nephew when he was pulled under the machine and crushed.
"Although the Pistenbully had some mechanical issues, it is believed based on our mechanical inspection that the parking brake would keep the Pistenbully from moving forward," the report stated, as per CNN.
"When Renner attempted to stop or divert the Pistenbully to avoid injury to (his nephew), he was pulled under the vehicle by the track and run over," it continued.
“The Pistenbully rolled over him and continued down the road,” the report says. “He laid on the ground and focused on his breathing while (his nephew and others) rendered aid to him until medical personnel arrived on scene," they added.
In his memoir My Next Breath, Renner recalls the exact moment everything changed.
“I died, right there on the driveway to my house,” he wrote. “Though I’d broken more than 30 bones and lost six quarts of blood (I’d find out the true extent of the injuries only later), an even greater danger to me as the minutes dragged by on the ice was hypothermia. I know I died - in fact, I’m sure of it.”
Rather than a moment of fear or agony, Renner described what followed as pure serenity. “When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,” he wrote. “There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy.”
Speaking to Kelly Ripa on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera, Renner went deeper into the surreal nature of his near-death experience. “It’s a great relief, is all I can say. It’s a wonderful relief to be removed from your body."
"It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel,” he explained. “You’re the atoms of who you are. The DNA. Your spirit is... It’s the highest adrenaline rush. But the peace that comes with it it’s magnificent. It’s so magical.”
But what shocked many was the Avengers star's reaction to being brought back: frustration. “I didn’t want to come back. I remember, and I was brought back and I was so pissed off,” he said, per Yahoo.
“I was gone for, I think probably for, it doesn’t matter if it’s five minutes or two minutes or 10, but I came back and I saw the eyeball again. I’m like, oh, s***. I’m back. Saw my legs. I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s gonna hurt later.’ I’m like, all right, let me continue to breathe,” he added.
Renner’s near-death experience didn’t end once he made it to the hospital. He was airlifted to Reno and underwent several surgeries.
After six days, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for even more surgeries. By April - just four months later - he was strong enough to visit Six Flags amusement park and ride a roller coaster.
Despite the unimaginable pain and the brush with death, Renner insists he wouldn’t change a thing. "I had to do something," he wrote, per Page Six. "In those lightning-fast seconds, his [Alex’s] life hung in the balance. If that machine was to hit him, it would have crushed him to death, no question."