Jeremy Renner describes snowplough accident: ‘My mistake and I paid for it’
Jeremy Renner, star of the Avengers, claimed that his January accident in which he was crushed by a snowplough was “my mistake, and I paid for it.” On New Year’s Day, Renner attempted to stop the car from running over his nephew and broke more than 30 bones in the process.
On Thursday, the American network ABC aired his first in-depth interview since that time.
“You shouldn’t be outside the vehicle when you’re operating it, you know what I mean? It’s like driving a car with one foot out of the car,” he said.
“But it is what it was. And it’s my mistake, and I paid for it.” Renner, 52, is best known for playing Marvel’s Hawkeye and has been nominated for two Oscars.
He told ABC’s Diane Sawyer that he and his nephew Alex, 27, had been removing one of the family’s trucks from the snow with the help of the 6.5-tonne vehicle.
Renner claimed that without applying the parking brake, he stepped out of the cab to see if Alex was in the way of the snowplough when it began to slide on the ice. But, he slipped and fell out.
“I just happened to be the dummy standing on the dang track a little bit, seeing if my nephew was there.”
Renner attempted to re-enter the vehicle out of concern that it might “sandwich” Alex against the truck. But, he stepped across the moving wheel tracks of the plough, which propelled him ahead and caused the vehicle to run over him.
Asked if he remembered the pain, he replied: “Oh yeah, I was awake through every moment.
“It’s hard to imagine what that feels like… It felt like someone took the wind out of you.
“Pain is everything – it’s like if your soul could feel pain.”
Recalling his thoughts at the time, he continued: “I said, ‘Oh, that [leg], that one’s really messed up… that leg’s [going to] be a problem.
“[I’m thinking], what’s my body [going to] look like? Am I just gonna be like a spine and a brain like a science experiment?”
However, after three months of intensive treatment, Renner was seen in the ABC programme being able to walk with the aid of a frame.
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