“If you have to live in medicines and painkillers, let me die.” Actor Jeremy Renner miraculously did not die in an accident with a snowman

"Medusa" tells how the star of the Marvel universe copes with the consequences of the accident

January 1, 2023 Jeremy Renner was taken by helicopter to the hospital. The 51-year-old actor received severe injuries, falling under his own snow removal. Doctors recorded his fractures of 30 bones. For several days, Renner was in critical condition - relatives were afraid that he would die. However, he was stabilized; Renner is now undergoing a recovery process - and is actively sharing this in social networks and interviews. Medusa resembles the circumstances of the accident and says that he experienced Jeremy Renner in the past few months.

Most of the audience know Jeremy Renner according to the role of Clint Barton, or a falcon eye, a participant in the Avengers superhero team. For the first time, Renner appeared in the image of a character, who shoots with amazing accuracy from a bow, in 2011 at the Torah.

In total, the actor starred in six films of the Marvel universe. And in 2021-in the mini-series "Falcon Eye". Renner's character of superhumans gave humanity. He spends the time free from the salvation of the Universe with his family and looks like an ordinary guy - especially against the backdrop of the green giant Bruce Banner, the eccentric inventor of Tony Stark and the muscular Patriot Steve Rogers.

Jeremy Renner was born in the California city of Modesta, he has Irish roots in his mother, German in his father. He began to act in the mid-1990s, and received the first noticeable roles already in zero. In 2002, Renner played the serial killer of Jeffrey Damer in the Bayopic “The Executioner Damer”, in 2007 he starred with Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in Western “How Coward Robert Ford killed Jesse James”.

The next role-the sergeant-span in the film Katherine Bigelou "Lord of the Storm" (2008)-became for Renner breakthrough. The picture received six Oscars, including for the best film, and Jeremy himself - the first nomination for a prestigious award.

In the 2010s, Renner mainly starred in blockbusters. In addition to the Avengers, for example, he played in two films of the franchise “Mission of the impossible” and in “Bourne's evolution”-the spin-off of the series about the ex-agent of the CIA Jason Born.

Now the main project with the participation of Renner is the series “Mayor of Kingstown” about the influential clan of the jailers, which is trying to control the situation in the city of Kingstown, Michigan. The first season was published on the Paramount+ Streaming Platform in 2021, the second premiere took place in January 2023. Renner himself at that moment was in the hospital.

"It seemed that I could see the other with one eye"

Jeremy Renner celebrated the New Year holidays with relatives at home, in the vicinity of the city of Rino, Nevada. January 1, 2023, the actor asked his 27-year-old nephew Alex Firs to help him remove snow from the site. “Everyone dressed to go skiing, and the nephew came to my aid, because the cars and we got stuck in snowdrifts,” Renner recalled .

One of the cars, the actor decided to pull it onto the road with a tank - a snowman weighing six and a half tons on a caterpillar. When only a few meters remained before leaving the site, the ranking with Renner drowned on the ice at the wheel. Due to the blizzard, Jeremy saw almost nothing. He opened the door and looked out of the cockpit so as not to hurt his nephew, but fell out of the ranking.

Renner was frightened that his relative would clamp between the car and the snowman, and therefore tried to jump back into the cab. By accident, he stepped on a caterpillar mover and fell - the next moment the ranking moved him.

The car drove along the legs and chest of the actor and seriously damaged one eye, which almost jumped out of the eye socket. “It seemed to me that I could see another one with my eye,” Renner said . Alex Firs recalled that from his uncle’s head “a whole blood pool flowed”. Firs himself was not injured and immediately hurried to the neighbors to call the salvation service.

Despite the pain, Jeremy Renner remained conscious and remembered his sensations in detail.

It is hard to imagine what it looks like, ” said the actor in a recent interview with TV presenter Diane Soyer. - As if all the air was pumped out of me. The pain was everywhere, as if I could feel it in my soul. I thought: "Oh, this leg is in complete disorder, there will be big problems with it." I imagined what my body would look like. Will only the brain and spine remain from me, as from the victim of a scientific experiment?

“It was terrible. It seemed to me that he was literally dying before my eyes, ” recalled Barb Fletcher, one of the neighbors who helped Renner before the ambulance arrived. - His head looked split. I think he died for a couple of seconds. ” Another neighbor even asked Renner’s nephew whether the victim was really Jeremy, since it was almost impossible to understand who in front of them was due to damage and a large amount of blood.

The arrived employees of emergency services loaded Renner into a helicopter and, when the storm licked, brought to the nearest hospital. There, the actor installed fractures of more than 30 bones, including eight ribs, the right knee, an ankle, shoulder and eye socket. Doctors also diagnosed the lung collapse in Renner, and in the liver they found a puncture from the rib bone. “His damage reached the red - maximum level,” said one of the operating actor surgeons. - The entire right side of his chest was fragmented. It was a complete mess. ”

“In the notes on the phone, I printed a farewell to my relatives,” recalled Jeremy Renner. “I asked them to not allow me to spend the rest of my life in tubes and wires.” I wrote: “If you have to live in medicines and painkillers, let me die.”

The fact that the doctors were not sure that Renner would be able to save. According to experts, the decisive factor was the good physical form of the actor. Doctors restored Renner's chest using metal plates. They were also sewn into his face - this allowed to keep the eye socket in normal condition. A titanium rod was placed in a broken leg. The actor’s jaw, in his own words, was collected in pieces and stuck with rubber bands and screws.

"I do not want this case to injure me"

The first weeks after the accident, Jeremy Renner moved exclusively with the help of a wheelchair. Now he walks on his own, leaning on a cane. The actor's restoration therapy includes classes on the treadmill and training with electrical stimulation.

“I'm learning to speak again,” Renner admitted . - The whole right side of my body has lost sensitivity, but I already feel how it gradually returns. I hardly feel the upper teeth, because the doctors had to get into my face and install two metal plates. ”

Jeremy Renner also pays much attention to psychological rehabilitation. According to the actor, in order to cope with the experienced, he reads the “Book of Inspisions” - a bestseller of a specialist in self -development, poet and spiritual mentor Mark not, who has fought a rare form of lymphoma.

But Renner considers the support of loved ones the key factor in successful rehabilitation. “I feel bad because my actions brought so much pain,” he admitted . “It was difficult to listen to their memories of what happened, but at the same time I felt true love.” The actor is supported by many colleagues.

There is no information about when Jeremy Renner can resume acting. The British publication Daily Mail, citing a close acquaintance, reported that now Jeremy was thinking about focusing on activism. In the meantime, the actor shares the news about health in social networks, attends evening shows and gives an interview.

He does not apply about the plans for the future, but advises fans to see the “rennervation”-the Disney+documentary mini-series, shot even before the accident. In the series, Renner travels to different countries and, together with experts, helps local communities come up with new ways to use written -off bulky vehicles. According to the actor, work on this project became his passion, and the anticipation of the premiere motivated to recover rather.

Nevertheless, Jeremy Renner still feels not only the physical, but also the psychological consequences of the incident. In an interview with Diane Soyer, the actor admitted that the accident turned into a painful topic for him and on the eve of the conversation he could not fall asleep, because he knew that he had to talk about what had happened. However, Renner added that he would do the same for saving the nephew’s life.

“I do not want this case to injure me and be perceived as a negative experience,” Renner explained . “I refuse to agree that now this memory will pursue me.”

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