Jeremy Renner said in his first interview since he nearly died in a snowplow accident in January that he was “awake all the time” when he was overwhelmed.
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racer try to stop Six-ton snowplow hits his nephew On New Year’s Day, he was sucked under the machine and broke more than 30 bones.
The 52-year-old Marvel star said he remembers “all” the pain, adding: “I’m awake all the time.”
Rainer’s nephew, Alexander Fries, described the aftermath of the accident, saying his uncle “was lying in a pool of blood, streaming from his head”.
“I ran up to him. I thought he was alive.”
“I’ll do it again,” Reiner told Sawyer. “Would you do it again?” she responded.
“Yes, I’ll do it again. Because [the snow plough] Right at my nephew,” Reiner said.
Sawyer reads a list Rainer’s injury: “Eight ribs broken in 14 places, right knee, right ankle, left tibia, left ankle, right collarbone, right shoulder, face, eye socket, jaw, mandible, collapsed lung, perforation from rib, Your liver, sounds terrible.”
The actor recalled wondering what his body looked like.
When Sawyer said, “I heard you say ‘sorry’ to your family in sign language, Rainer shed tears.”
“I chose to survive. That wasn’t going to kill me, absolutely not,” he told her in a later interview.
“I’ve lost a lot of meat and bones through this experience, but I’ve been replenished and replenished with love and titanium.”
The interview is scheduled to air on ABC News in the US on April 6.