“I still remember how my head cracked”

A year and a half after the incident in which he suffered nearly 40 broken bones, Jeremy Renner remembers his near-fatal snow plowing accident in horrific detail.

The “Avengers” star recalled the agonizing moments when he was pulled under the machine while clearing snow near his home in Reno, Nevada on January 1, 2023, in a new interview with Men’s Health.

“I remember my head hitting the thing and it just pressing down on me – it felt exactly as you would imagine,” he said. “An immobile object and a crushing force, and something has to give. But thank God my skull didn’t completely give way. And then it just kept going. Waves, waves, waves, waves. The cheekbone broke, the eye socket broke, and then my eyes bulged out from the crushing I suffered from the machine.”

“I could see my left eyeball with my right eyeball,” he continued. “I was screaming for air. I had to expel all my air energy just to be able to suck air back in. I couldn’t breathe.”

As he lay there waiting for help, “I got really tired. My pulse got slower and slower,” he remembers.

After about 45 minutes, the paramedics arrived, he said, and he could only remember fragments of the hours and days that followed.

The actor was flown by helicopter to a hospital, where he spent two weeks in intensive care. He suffered injuries including a fracture of 38 bones, a collapsed lung and a perforated liver.

He underwent multiple surgeries and physical therapy and made a remarkable recovery. He is now continuing to build strength with an intense fitness program that he schedules around his filming schedule for Mayor of Kingstown.