Jeremy Renner felt as if he was “on fire, electrocuted, and melting” all at once after his snow plough accident. He shared that he had nothing to do but “breathe” his way through the pain. The actor, 54, broke 38 bones in his body and sustained a collapsed lung and lacerated liver after being crushed by his snowcat in January 2023.

Speaking on a show, Renner said, “What is the alternative in that situation when your nerve-endings are on fire, electrocuted and melting, and drowning, all at once? The only thing I wasn’t doing was breathing. Pain is pain essentially. So, I had to breathe otherwise I would pass out, my organs would fail and I’d die. That’s why the book is [titled] My Next Breath. It’s the fight to exhale, then inhale, not realising that the ribcage is collapsed and the lung was punctured.”

The actor added: “My eyeball came out. When you can see your eye with your other eye, it’s like ‘Okay…’”

Renner is the oldest of seven siblings, and recalled that attending antenatal classes with his mother when she was pregnant gave him the power to know just how important breath control was in that moment. He said, “Not a lot of 12-year-old boys get that opportunity, but, ironically, it was probably the thing that gave me the confidence to understand the power that you’re mitigating pain with breath.”

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