Jeremy Renner Broke Eight Ribs in 14 Places, Shares Terrifying 911 Call After Snow Plow Accident in First TV Interview
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jeremy Renner will sit down with Diane Sawyer for his first television interview since the critical snow plow accident that nearly cost him his life.
The ABC News special, titled “Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph,” will air in April ahead of the world premiere of Renner’s new Disney+ series “Rennervations,” which will serve as the actor’s first public press appearance since the accident. “All of it,” Renner tells Sawyer when asked how much of the pain he remembers. “I was awake through every moment.” Renner was hospitalized for blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries at the start of January after his Sno-Cat, a large snow plow that weighs at least 14,330 pounds, ran him over.
The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him. “I see him in a pool of blood coming from his head,” Renner’s nephew tells Sawyer in the ABC News special. “I ran up to him.
I didn’t think he was alive.” A teaser for the Renner interview includes the shocking 911 call made to save Renner’s life (the actor is heard moaning in pain as people tell him to “keep fighting), as well Sawyer reading off a long list of Renner’s injuries, which include “eight ribs broken in 14 places.
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