American actor and musician Jeremy Renner said he had "so many things to live for" as he detailed his recovery one year after his near-fatal snow plow accident.
The Marvel actor, 52, broke more than 30 bones and had multiple operations after he was accidentally run over by his six-tonne snowplough while trying to help his nephew on January 1, 2023.
His injuries included eight ribs broken in 14 places, a right knee and ankle broken, a left leg tibia broken, a left ankle broken, a right clavicle broken, a right shoulder broken, and more.
Renner was discharged after two weeks.
“It’s been a really wonderful, wonderfully busy year, and I think I’m ready,” he said of returning for season three during an interview Sunday night on CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
“I think I’m strong enough. We’ll see. I mean, I literally go back in a week. But I’ll be doing my best, trying my hardest.”
Renner also has been busy working on his new album, Love and Titanium, which drops in January.
The album was inspired by his recovery process following the incident, and the first single, “Weight,” will be released on the one-year anniversary.
“Music has always been pretty cathartic and healing for me regardless anyway,” Renner added.
“This is more of a narrative of life and death and the recovery of all last year. So it’s more of a journal entry so that the music crosses a lot of different genres,”.
The Marvel star said he really started thinking seriously about doing the album over the summer.
“We just started in considering it” he noted. “I wasn’t really strong enough to stand up to the microphone at that point.… It was wonderfully healing, I think for even the people I wrote it with who are all my friends. All of my recovery has been — the better I got, the better everybody else got. So the music became also a narrative of that.”
Renner added he was celebrating the new year in Reno, Nevada, with all of the family who was with him a year ago.
“We have a lot to celebrate this year and kind of recorrect what happened last year, and I really feel pretty blessed by it,” he said.
Renner also reflected on what would have happened had things gone differently.
“I’m just so blessed that I had so many things to live for. You know, I have a giant family. I have a 10-year-old daughter,” he said. “I would have disappointed and and really messed up a lot of people’s lives if I would have passed. And so there’s a lot for me to get better for.”
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