Jeremy Renner reveals that he even considered end-of-life decision after snowplow accident
Jeremy Renner
Months after Jeremy Renner met with a brutal accident, the Marvel actor is finally talking about the devastating accident and what impact it had left on his life. The Marvel star met with a snowplow accident on New Year's Day in Reno, Nevada, while he was clearing snow off his driveway. He suffered blunt chest trauma as well as some orthopaedic injuries.
The Avengers: End Game actor recently recalled the most terrifying time of his life during his recent interview with Diane Sawyer.
While talking, the actor, who sustained life-threatening injuries, said that he even felt that he was going to die.
“If I was there on my own, that would have been a horrible way to die, and surely I would have. Surely,” he said before adding, “Surely, but I wasn’t alone. I was with my nephew, sweet Alex.”
After the traumatic accident, Rennerwas left with over 30 broken bones and severalinjuries all over his body. Looking at his condition, Jeremy even had a thought to end his life.
Recalling a heart-wrenching talkthat he had with his family members, Jeremy said: ''Don’t let me live on tubes on a machine,” Renner said before adding, “If my existence is going to be on drugs and painkillers, let me go now.”
Renner's ribcage has been rebuilt with metal and plates have been inserted in her face to support his eye socket and titanium rods in his legs. The actor's jaw is being held together with the help of rubber bands and screws, as per THR.
“This whole side of my body, I don’t really feel sensitivity to touch, but it’ll grow. I can feel it, the change already in two months,” he said before adding that his vision was fine.
“I feel hardly any of my teeth on the upper part because they went inside my face to put in two plates because of an orbital crack.”
“They put screws in my skull and my jaw to hold it with rubber bands,” he added noting his pain. “I’m learning to speak again.”
In the interview, Renner said he was awake throughout the injury. He tells Sawyer, "All of it. I was awake through every moment.”
Renner got under the machine as he tried to save his nephew Alex, who was helping him clear the snow. He says he'd "do it again. ‘Cause [the snowplough] was going right at my nephew."
Added Renner, "What’s my body going to look like? Am I just going to be a spine and a brain, like a science experiment? I chose to survive. That’s not gonna kill me, no way. I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I’ve been refuelled and refilled with love and titanium.”
