Jeremy Renner has an optimistic outlook on his serious injuries following his New Year's Day snowplow accident. The 52-year-old star was a guest on Monday's episode of, arriving with a cane and a big smile.He shared that the injury broke «35 or so» bones.«We kept discovering them as we were going along.
It went from critical order, like, priority of what I'm going to die from or not,» Renner said of his broken bones. «And then six weeks later, I'm finding another break and another break and another break.»Renner considers himself lucky to be alive, noting that despite the severity of his injuries, it could have been much worse.«It just missed every vertebrae, didn't hit any organs, didn't hit my brain, didn't swell, nothing like that.
My eye did pop out, that's weird,» Renner shared. «But I got pretty lucky that none of my organs got messed up. It pierced my liver but that wasn't dangerous.»«Collapsed lung?» host Kimmel asked.«Yeah, that's fine.
I've got another one,» Renner quipped.While he seemed upbeat during his late-night appearance, the Marvel star did note that he had two stints in two separate intensive care units after getting «kicked out» of the first one.«I tried to get out of the hospital as soon as I was in it.
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