Jeremy Renner told Kelly Ripa on her SiriusXM podcast that he “was so pissed off” when he regained consciousness during his near-death experience in January 2023
“The peace that comes with it, it’s magnificent. It’s so magical,” he said of momentarily dying.
Renner is currently promoting his memoir My Next Breath, which published in April and recounts the snowplow accident and the long recovery he has embarked on in the two-plus years since
Jeremy Renner is opening up about the powerful wave of feelings he experienced after regaining consciousness following his near-death snowplow accident in January 2023.
On Wednesday, May 21, Renner, 54, appeared on SiriusXM’s Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast to promote his recently published memoir My Next Breath. During his conversation with host Kelly Ripa, the actor recalled his near-death experiences when he broke dozens of bones and was left in critical condition after he was struck and crushed by a seven-ton snowplow at his home near Reno, Nevada, on New Year’s Day.
“It’s a great relief is all I can say. It’s a wonderful relief to be removed from your body,” Renner said. “It is the most exhilarating peace you could ever feel. You don’t see anything but what’s in your mind’s eye. You’re the atoms of who you are. The DNA. Your spirit is… it’s the highest adrenaline rush. But the peace that comes with it, it’s magnificent. It’s so magical. And I didn’t want to come back. I remember, and I was brought back and I was so pissed off.”
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Jeremy Renner on April 29, 2025
“I was gone for, I think probably for, it doesn’t matter if it’s five minutes or two minutes or 10, but I came back and I saw the eyeball again,” the two-time Oscar nominee told host Ripa, 54, “I’m like, oh, s—. I’m back. Saw my legs. I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s gonna hurt later.’ I’m like, all right, let me continue to breathe.”
Renner titled his memoir My Next Breath in recognition of the solace he found in focusing on breathing during the 45 minutes it took for him to receive emergency help, and in the more than two years since the accident occurred.
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Jeremy Renner on Dec. 9, 2024
When Ripa asked the Avengers star whether he spoke with anyone while he was unconscious, the actor simply said he entered a plane of existence that was “not linear.”
“It makes me, a man that didn’t want to come back, really be able to be back here and live on my terms. As the captain of my own ship – get on it or off it, I don’t give a f—,” Renner added. “I’m going to live life on my own terms. And for nobody else — [I’m] very clear, the white noise is ripped away. I repel the things I gave credence to. I can’t stomach the things I gave credence to prior to the accident. . . I invest into love and my shared relationships that I experience love with. ’cause that is the only thing that you take with you.”
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