Marvel’s Jeremy Renner has revealed what occurred when his heart ‘bottomed out’ and he briefly ‘died’ during his terrifying snowplow accident.
The 54-year-old believes he died briefly during the dramatic episode in January 2023, while waiting for rescue services to arrive at his house in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States.
He suffered a slew of injuries, including more than 30 fractured bones, and doctors subsequently informed him he was ‘within millimeters of hitting a crucial organ or main nerve.’
This would have been deadly, but Renner somehow pulled back from the edge on that fateful New Year’s Day two years ago, despite insisting that he ‘died’ on his own driveway at one point.
The town actor was run over by his own 14,000-pound snowplow while attempting to spare his nephew, Alex, from the same fate.

Renner detailed the terrible event in his new memoir, My Next Breath, going into painful detail about those near-fatal minutes.
“Six f**king wheels, seventy-six steel blades, 14,000 pounds of machine, all ranged against one human body,” he wrote, as shown on Page 6.
“I hear all the bones crack… skull, jaw, cheekbones, molars, fibula, tibia, lungs, eye sockets, cranium, pelvis, ulna, legs, arms, skin, crack, snap, crack, squeeze.”
But while he lay paralyzed in pain in the snow, Renner said he didn’t understand what a ‘hot mess his body was’ in’—when in reality, his ‘collapsed rib cage, shattered and dislocated shoulder, and collarbone had worked to compress his lung to the point of suffocation.’
Renner also described how his left eyeball ‘violently burst out of his skull’ when the orbital bone enclosing his eye socket was fractured, saying, “I could see my left eye with my right eye.”
His wounded body was also fighting the ‘killing cold’ that was hitting Reno, Nevada, at the time, while he waited for paramedics to come.
In My Next Breath, the California-born singer confessed that he felt powerless to fight for his life after lying on the frigid ground for more than 30 minutes.
“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, and my mother, I just got tired,” Renner said in a touching moment.
“After around 30 minutes on the ice of manually breathing for so long, an exertion equivalent to doing 10 or 20 push-ups every minute for half an hour, I died. I died right there in the driveway of my house.”

Renner stated that his nephew and a neighbor both saw him become a ‘grey-green tint’ before closing his eyes.
“I know I died—in fact, I’m sure of it,” the Oscar nominee wrote, revealing that paramedics informed him that his ‘heart rate had bottomed out at 18,’ indicating that he was ‘essentially dead.’
Renner also described what he witnessed during his brief death and the ‘exhilarating serenity’ that overcame him at that point.
“When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful, and fantastic energy,” he told me.
“There was no time, location, or space, and nothing to view save an electric, two-way vision formed by threads of that unimaginable energy.
“I could see for a lifetime. I could see everything at once. In death, there was no time at all, yet there was also all time and eternity.
Renner claims he ultimately felt something pushing him not to ‘let go,’ which brought him back—albeit it was touch and go for a minute.
He now sees his comeback as a ‘glorious moment,’ stating in his new book, “I didn’t f***ing die.” So the New Year’s celebration becomes a reflection of the depth of our family’s love.