Jeremy Renner: Rejecting Hawkeye's "Insult Offer" & His Fightback After 14,000lb Snowplough Crash (E348)

To me, it's like you get it you you get a seat behind the curtain that comes out look I didn't want to come back let me just put it that way somehow someway I was I was pulled back they uh asked me to do a a season two and they offered me half the money did you think I'm only half the Jeremy because I got ran over? I thought and believed when I woke up from a coma. Um is that I had to get better to heal, not to for me to get better, but to heal my family. That is the voice of Marvel actor Jeremy Renner, the Hollywood star known worldwide for his role as a superhero, but whose real life story took a dramatic turn on a snowy country road in 2023. Whilst clearing snow on his Nevada property, Jeremy experienced a near-fatal accident that left him with devastating injuries and a long, painful road to recovery.

38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places. Three breaks in his lower pelvis, a broken femur, a broken right ankle, his left leg was broken, left ankle was broken, right clavicle was broken, his right shoulder blade was broken, his right eye socket and jaw was broken, his left hand was broken, he fractured his wrist, his left foot, had a collapsed lung, a pierced liver, major head lacerations, and all of this, Damien, is before we even speak about the mental impacts of such injuries. I mean, truly incredible. Well, two years on from that fateful day, Jeremy sat down with us from the gym of a rented house where he's filming his latest TV project to share the experience of it with high performance. It's really fascinating how he talks about a breathing technique that he learned as a kid and how it saved his life and why, despite the trauma he's been through, he wouldn't go back to his life as it was before the incident.

The bit that really stood out for me though was when he gets emotional, sharing the pain of hearing his mum planning for life without him. You're absolutely right. And as well as getting emotional, he also got a passionate Damien, didn't he? And actually quite angry when he tells us he turned down the chance to recreate one of his most famous roles because of an offer that he felt was a disgrace. So stay tuned for that moment, as we bring you the unfiltered truths about a Hollywood actor who suffered a life-changing moment in the snow.

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