Jeremy Renner is opening up about being nearly crushed to death.
The 54-year-old Avengers actor, who was critically injured in his driveway after being crushed by his 14,000 pound Snowcat plow in January 2023, spoke about the incident in his upcoming memoir My Next Breath, due out April 29.
“Writing about it has been very emotionally cathartic to have to go word by word through it all again,” he explained to People.
“I don’t not talk about it. It’s part of my life every day, and it’s always a wonderful reminder of the strength of the human spirit and how fragile the body is and how badass it is at recovery.”
Keep reading to find out more…
In the book, he detailed the experience in gruesome detail, including the 35 broken bones in his body and how he saw “my left eye with my right eye” after his head was smashed against the pavement.
“I’m not haunted by the incident — not too often anyway — by the images, the sounds,” he said. “But I am reminded of my new reality, and it’s wonderfully positive. I didn’t die.”
Jeremy was injured while trying to prevent the plow from crashing into his nephew Alex, who was 27 at the time of the accident.
“[Alex] read the book. Actually, we did listen to the book together, which was pretty intense, but we never really tried to push this under anything,” he said.
“If I get better, then he’ll get better. I put images in that kid’s head he cannot unsee, so I’m going to do anything I can to get better. So I’m healing him, he heals me. It’s a beautiful thing.”
Jeremy credits his family, especially his daughter, Ava, now 12, for his recovery.
“It was a really wonderful gift to give my daughter to see how fallible I was, but also how we can overcome such obstacles. You can’t really teach a kid that except if it just happens to you,” he said.
“She was my fuel to get better. I refused to give my daughter that fear or insecurity that I’m not going to be around. I’ve worked so hard in my life to ensure my daughter has a lot of fortitude and is not afraid of anything.”
Click here to read and hear an excerpt from the memoir.
Avengers: Doomsday is hitting theaters next year on May 1, 2026, and 27 Marvel stars were just confirmed to be returning for the highly anticipated film. However, after the massive cast announcement, there were several prominent names left out of the cast list.