Jeremy Renner marked two years since his near-fatal snowplow accident with a message of gratitude on Wednesday.
The “Hawkeye” actor took to Instagram to mark his “ReBirthday” and ship due to the medical staff, household and mates who helped him recuperate from the Jan. 1, 2023 incident.
“Happy New Year blessings to you all…. Ringing in my second ‘ReBirthday’ today,” Renner captioned a photograph of himself in a hospital mattress, alongside smiling medical workers.
“I send out my love, respect, and gratitude for the army of people that it took to put me back together again,” the two-time Oscar nominee’s message continued. “Thank you to each and every nurse, doctor, first responder… I literally owe you my life.”
Renner went on to thank onlookers who sprang into motion after he was pulled beneath the physique of a seven-ton snowplow at his Reno, Nevada-area compound. The machine broke free whereas Renner and his nephew have been making an attempt to tow a automotive caught in ft of snow leftover from a current blizzard.
The accident left Renner with a collapsed lung, a lacerated liver and greater than 30 damaged bones, and rendered him almost motionless for months.
“All my heart goes out to my beautiful, brave nephew and the angels (my neighbors) who jumped to my aid and endured the chaos for 45 long minutes on the icy asphalt New Years morning,” his caption learn. “I’m so sorry all the haunting images I imprinted on you all (I’ll spare you all from the meat grinding images.)”
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“With the amount of love and prayers that flooded in from you all around the world (needing each and everyone of them), my family never leaving my side , with some divine intervention, a bit of luck and a whole lot of miracles,” he went on, “I stand strong again.”
The actor added that he felt “fucking BLESSED to take my next step, to take MY NEXT BREATH.”
“Thank you with every fiber and cell in my body,” his caption concluded. “I love you ALL.”
Renner has been progressively getting again to work. Originally of this yr, he was lastly robust sufficient to movie the third season of his Paramount+ crime thriller, “Mayor Of Kingstown.”
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Whereas opening up about his accident in a June profile for Males’s Health, Renner instructed the journal how his brush with dying taught him to take nothing in life as a right.
“Oh, God. I’m not having another bad day ever, dude,” he stated.
