Jeremy Renner claims that when he was in the hospital after the snowplow accident that occurred on January 1, he put notes on his phone that was intended to serve as “my last words to my family.”
On Wednesday, Good Morning America previewed a portion of the forthcoming interview that the actor from Avengers: Endgame would have with Diane Sawyer by broadcasting a few seconds from the 911 calls that were made after Renner, who was 52 years old at the time, was crushed by a snowplow. In the portion of the interview that will be shown in its entirety on Thursday, the actor remembers believing that his nephew Alex would have saved his life if he hadn’t been there.
In the video footage that was uploaded to GMA, Renner can be heard telling Sawyer, “If I had been there, all by myself, it would’ve been an awful way to go.” “And you can bet that I would’ve done it. Surely. Yet, I wasn’t alone myself since my nephew was there with me. Sweet Alex. And then the other members of the cavalry arrived.”
As Sawyer, 77, stated that Renner had written a farewell message to his family when he was in serious condition in the hospital, the actor started to become emotional and start crying.
In the video that was uploaded by GMA, he can be heard saying, “I’m putting down notes on my phone – my final words to my family.”
A new audio clip from 911 calls that were made after the accident was shown on GMA. In the recording, a caller can be heard telling dispatchers, “Someone’s in front of my home on the ground and was ran over by a snowcat, he’s been crushed.”
“Send paramedics, ambulance… Attend to what I say. The caller states, “I need—you may want to get live flight out here as soon as possible,” and continues, “He’s in poor condition, ” “when they were questioned about whether or not they were with Renner.
In previously available footage from Renner’s upcoming exclusive interview with Sawyer, the actor’s nephew is heard telling Sawyer that he “could just perfectly see” Renner, 52, “in a pool of blood coming from his head” after the incident in which the actor put his own life in danger to save a member of his family.
“And I raced up to him… you know, I didn’t believe he was alive,” the actor’s nephew said, becoming visibly and audibly distraught as he expressed his feelings. “And I went up to him,” Throughout their conversation, Sawyer recounted how Renner claimed that he would “do it again” in an instant.
“You’d do it again?” “Sure, I’d do it again. ‘Cause [the snowplow] was heading straight towards my nephew,” he said incredulously when she asked him whether he would do it again.
Renner responded as follows when he was asked whether he remembered the agony: “Yes, the whole lot of it. I did not fall asleep for a single second.”
As Sawyer went through his list of ailments, which included more than 30 fractured bones, she questioned him about the time he signed “I’m sorry” to his family after his accident, when he was unable to talk due to his injuries and was unable to communicate verbally with them.
After a brief pause, the actor who plays Hawkeye said, “Yes… ” while turning his head aside and showing signs of emotion.
Renner continued by adding that he “chose to live,'” to which he replied, “You’re not going to kill me. No way.”
According to a report on the event that was made public by police in Nevada in the month of January, Renner was attempting to protect his nephew from being driven over by a snowplow when the truck started to slip and crushed the actor.
Renner suffered “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” and broke more than 30 bones as a result of an accident that occurred on New Year’s Day. As a direct consequence of his injuries, he had to go through a number of operations.
After being run over by his snowplow, which was estimated to weigh at least 14,330 pounds, while he was assisting a member of his family in freeing a car that had been “stuck” in the snow, he was first listed as being in “serious but stable condition.”
The interview with Jeremy Renner that Diane Sawyer conducted will be shown on ABC News on Thursday, April 6 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.
