Jeremy Renner says he'd get crushed by snowplow again to save nephew

‘I would do it again’: Jeremy Renner fights tears in first interview since horrific snowplow accident where he describes breaking 30 bones after being crushed beneath 7-TON snowplow to save his nephew

  • Renner was crushed on January 1 near his home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada
  • He was with his nephew trying to tow a car when the Snowcat rolled towards him
  • Renner tried to jump back into the moving plow but was dragged under  

In his first interview since he was crushed by a 7-ton snowplow, actor Jeremy Renner says he would do it again to save his nephew’s life. 

Renner suffered 30 broken bones, a collapsed lung and had his liver pierced by a shattered rib in the horrific, death-defying accident on New Year’s Day. 

He had been using the Snowcat plow to try to help his adult nephew, Alexander Fries, pull his car out of deep snow near his Lake Tahoe home when he jumped out, forgetting to put on the emergency brake. 

The plow started barreling towards his nephew.  

Renner is believed to have tried to get back into the snowplow while it was moving in in an effort to bring it to a halt. That is when he was pulled beneath it and crushed. 

Actor Jeremy Renner in his first interview since he nearly died in a snowplow accident on January 1

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Renner’s nephew, Alexander Fries, was standing in the snowplow’s path when it began hurtling towards him. Renner tried to jump back into the driver’s seat to stop it, but was dragged under

Renner’s adult nephew tells Diane Sawyer he thought his uncle was dead when he saw him lying in a ‘pool of blood’ 

Renner in the snowplow that he became crushed beneath just 13 minutes before the accident on January 1

In his first interview since the accident, he told ABC’s Diane Sawyer, that he remained awake throughout the horrifying incident and can remember the searing pain. 

‘I was awake through all of it,’ he says. 

The interview will air in full on April 6 but a trailer was released today. 

‘I would do it again,’ he says firmly to an incredulous Sawyer. 

‘It was coming right at my nephew. I would do it again.’  

The special includes Renner’s nephew telling Sawyer that he thought he was dead.

‘I just perfectly see him in a pool of blood coming from his head. I ran up to him, I didn’t think he was alive.’ 

Harrowing 911 dispatch calls are also included where Renner can be heard groaning in the background.

‘There is a lot of blood here. He is in rough shape,’ the caller can be heard saying.

Renner’s extensive injuries included a collapsed lung, pierced liver and 30 broken bones

Renner spent weeks in the hospital before being allowed home. He said he didn’t know how much of him was left after being crushed: ‘Am I just going to look like a spine? Like a weird science experiment?’

Renner recovering in a wheelchair. The actor is still undergoing extensive physiotherapy 

‘You’re not going to kill me.. I chose to survive,’ says Renner in the ABC special that will air next week 

Renner receiving a head massage from his sister. ‘I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone but I have been refueled and refilled with love – and titanium,’ he joked in the special 

Renner broke 30 bones including both ankles, his right knee, his right clavicle, and eight ribs. 

He suffered a collapsed lung and his liver was pierced by one of his broken ribs. 

‘I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone but I have been refueled and refilled with love – and titanium,’ he joked. 

He told Sawyer he considers himself a ‘lucky man’ when he looks in the mirror, and that he ‘chose to survive’, thinking ‘you’re not going to kill me.’  

Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph will air on ABC on Thursday April 6th at 10pm EST.  

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