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Back on January 1, 2023, 52-year-old actor Jeremy Renner almost died when he was run over by his own snowplow that weighs over 14,000 pounds.
The snowplow sent Renner to the hospital with multiple injuries that were so bad that the actor actually wrote a good bye letter to his family while he was in critical condition.
Several grisly details about his injuries have been made public in the months since Renner’s accident, but none were quite as graphic as what he shared Wednesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“So we were trapped in the house,” Renner explained to Jimmy Fallon. “We had no electricity for like 3 or 4 days, and it was like 25 of us. We were having fun. Don’t get me wrong. But we had a break in the weather, and so I wanted to get people outside and have fun.
“And to do that, I had to clear the road. And in doing so, pulling the truck out of the long driveway, got caught up.
“Anyway, the machine got out of control, out of my hands. It was running into my nephew and was crushing him between the truck and the thing, so I jumped back on it, or tried to, and got caught up in the tracks. It broke like 38 bones. It was brutal, dude. It was brutal.”
Jeremy Renner then told Fallon that his left shin or ankle, half of his face and the right side of his back (there were 14 breaks in his ribs and he had a collapsed lung) are all titanium now.
“You see like, your eye with your other eye, it was because my eyeball was out, and weird things go through your head, right?” Renner continued. “It’s like, ‘Guess that’s real, but I’ll worry about that later.’ And I look and my legs they were all twisted up, ‘I’ll worry about that later.’ Because I’ve got to worry about breathing first.”
Jimmy Fallon asked Renner if he panicked when he realized the damage that had been done.
“No. You can’t. You die. You die then,” he replied.
On the bright side, Jeremy Renner said that because of the snowplow accident and his near-death experience, “I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life.”