Jeremy Renner has been through so much that even his emotional support animals need emotional support.
The Avengers: Endgame alum recently unleashed a farm’s worth of critters on The Tonight Show while chatting about his upcoming memoir, My Next Breath. The spectacle began when host Jimmy Fallon asked about Hershey, the dog that helped the actor recover from his near-fatal snowplow accident in 2023.
“I don’t go anywhere without him — he’s amazing,” Renner said. “I take him everywhere. He’s backstage if you wanna meet him.”
“Of course,” Fallon replied, prompting a staffer to bring out the big-eyed pet.
“He runs security for me,” Renner joked, holding the tiny dog.
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Jeremy Renner
“That’s your emotional support animal?” Fallon asked. “He looks pretty anxious himself.”
Noticing the pup staring out nervously at the live audience, Renner explained that Hershey actually has his own emotional support animal for such trying times: a grey and white rabbit named Lady Fluffernutter.
“She really calms down Hershey,” he said as Lady Fluffernutter joined them on stage. “So it’s a nice little happy family.”
But before long, Renner realized that Lady Fluffernutter was battling some anxieties of her own. “Oh my goodness, she’s got her face in the corner — that’s not a good sign, Jimmy,” he said to Fallon. “I think she doesn’t do well in high-stress situations.”
The only possible solution, then, was to bring out yet another emotional support animal. This time, Renner called upon Pentunia, a pink-spotted pig.
“Now look, Jim, I know this seems like a lot, but we’ve been through a lot, okay?” Renner told Fallon. “We’re gonna get through this together!”
“No, I can only imagine,” Fallon agreed, trying to steer the conversation back on track. “Looks like everyone’s happy. Let’s talk about the book —”
But Renner, looking down at the pig, interrupted and declared, “She’s freaking out.”
“No, she’s not,” Fallon replied.
“She’s not doing well,” Renner insisted. “We need Ping-Pong.”
He next introduced a blue and yellow macaw, completing the sprawling menagerie.
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Jeremy Renner visits ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ with his emotional support dog
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An amused Fallon then recapped the dynamics.”Ping-Pong calms down Petunia, which calms down Lady Fluffernutter, which calms down Hershey.”
“Look, all I know is that I feel so calm, Jimmy, I forgot what we were even talking about,” Renner joked.
Renner’s need for an emotional support animal comes more than two years after he survived being crushed by a snowplow on January 1, 2023, while trying to divert the vehicle from his nephew on his property in Nevada. The MCU actor was airlifted to a hospital after the accident, where the medical staff determined he had suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. He was discharged after two weeks and revealed on social media that he broke more than 30 bones and had a collapsed lung.
During his chat with Fallon, Renner said it was “quite the struggle” to write about the accident for his new book.
“I was like, ‘Oh, God, I got to relive this thing? Like word by word?'” he recalled. “But I realized quickly that, for anyone and especially me, to get out of my own damn way was a very important thing. To relive it, to recount it, to own it in a different way word by word was quite healing for me.”
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He added that the process was also “healing” for his loved ones, including his nephew, who witnessed the incident, and his mother, who received an alarming call about Renner’s critical condition.
“I learned a lot in writing it,” he said. “It was healing in a lot of different ways, and look, we know how this thing ends. We know how the movie ends — I’m here, right?”
Watch Renner introduce Fallon to his impressive array of emotional support animals above.
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