FoxNews: Jeremy Renner says he died after terrifying snowplow accident, recalls being at 'exhilarating peace'

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Jeremy Renner says he died after terrifying snowplow accident, recalls being at 'exhilarating peace'

In his new book, "My Final Breath," Jeremy Renner - who was run over by a snowplow on Jan. 1, 2023 - says he "died" after the terrifying accident.
                       
                       
                           

Two years after being run over by a snowplow that left him in critical condition, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is revealing new details surrounding the terrifying incident, including that he actually "died."

"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, my mother, I just got tired," Renner wrote in his new book, "My Final Breath," per You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.  "After about 30 minutes on the ice, of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing 10 or 20 push-ups per minute for half an hour ... that's when I died."

"I died, right there on the driveway to my house."

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"I know I died — in fact, I'm sure of it," he wrote.

Renner noted that the EMTs said his "heart rate had bottomed out at 18." 

"This was basically dead," Renner, who said he was at "an exhilarating peace," wrote. 

"When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy," he added. "There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy."

"You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login my lifetime. I could see everything all at once," he added. "In death there was no time, no time at all, yet it was also all time and forever."

Renner, 54, was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Jan. 1, 2023 at his Lake Tahoe home, resulting in traumatic injuries. The actor spent most of 2023 recovering and trying to return to his regular activities.

Bodycam footage showed what unfolded during Renner's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, where he was "completely crushed" by his 14,000-pound PistenBully Snowcat.

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"Six f---ing wheels, seventy-six steel blades, 14,000 pounds of machine, all ranged against one human body," he wrote in the book, according to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. "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."

"I had no full sense then what a hot mess my body was in," he added. "The truth was that my collapsed rib cage and my broken and dislocated shoulder and collarbone had worked to compress my lung to the point of suffocation."

"I could see my left eye with my right eye," Renner wrote.

"With the temperatures that morning hovering around freezing, and my body in shock, stuck on an icy driveway, the killing cold began to dangerously bite."

Renner was airlifted to a local hospital and had surgery after suffering blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries.

During a previous appearance on "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login" Renner said the accident served as a "great reminder of what we all should be looking at in life."

"If we get too stressed or if things get too difficult or if it's insurmountable odds or whatever it might be. Just put one foot down and then put another foot down and then move towards it, right?"

Fox News Digital's Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report. 

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