Several months after his hospital stint, Jeremy Renner revealed details about the snowplow accident that nearly cost him his life during Wednesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show.”
“The machine got out of control, out of my hands. It was running into my nephew and was crushing him between the truck and the [snowplow], so I jumped back on it — or tried to — and got caught up in the tracks,” Renner told Jimmy Fallon.
“It broke like 38 bones. It was brutal, dude.”
He went on to disclose the parts of his body that had been affected.
One of his ankles, half of his face and the right side of his back are now “metal,” meaning they were reinforced with titanium. He also suffered from 14 breaks in the ribs during the accident.
“You see like your eye with your other eye — it was because my eyeball was out — and weird things go through your head, right?” Renner continued.
“It’s like, ‘Guess that’s real, but I’ll worry about that later.’ I look and my legs are all twisted up, ‘I’ll worry about that later. I’ve got to worry about breathing first.’”
Before asking him questions about his accident, Jimmy Fallon checked if the actor was okay with sharing details about his accident.
In January of last year, Renner was run over by a snowplow after saving his nephew from the vehicle.
The actor assured Fallon that he knew how to operate the machine but because of “terrible conditions” the accident happened.
“There are so many great gifts to being tested to your limits — your physical limits, your spiritual limits, emotional limits. I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life. It’s impossible, right? There’s that gift,” Renner said.
The Marvel star also revealed that Anthony Mackie was one of the first people he saw when he woke up in the hospital after being on life support for “three or four days.”
He said he was visited by some of his other Marvel co-stars but didn’t reveal them by name.
“It was like a living wake kind of thing. Everyone was coming to say their goodbyes, which is kind of weird, right? But at least Mackie was there, and he was really worried,” Renner said. “To receive that much love is also a very difficult thing for anybody to do.”
