Hollywood star Jeremy Renner talks about one thing that got him through snow plough accident
Hollywood star Jeremy Renner felt as if he was "on fire and electrocuted and melting" all at once after his snow plough accident
- LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Jeremy Renner felt as if he was "on fire
and 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.
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- The 54-year-old actor broke 38 bones in his body and
sustained a collapsed lung and lacerated liver after being crushed by his
snowcat in January 2023.
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- Speaking on UK TV show The One Show, Renner said:
"What is the alternative in that situation when your nerve-endings are on
fire, and electrocuted and melting, and drowning, all of it all at once, it was
confusing.
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- "The only thing I wasn't doing was breathing, pain
is just 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 the My Next Breath, it's
the fight to exhale, then inhale, not realising that the ribcage is collapsed
and the lung was punctured.”
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- The actor added: “My eyeball came out, when you can see
your eye with your other eye, it's like 'Okay...'"
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- Renner is the oldest of seven siblings, and recalled that
attending antenatal classes with his mother when she was pregnant was what gave
him the power to know just how important breath control was in that moment,
reports femalefirst.co.uk.
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- 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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- "And believing in that, knowing that, seeing it
first hand with my mom in labour. Feeding her ice chips to get her to breathe
right and all these things.”
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- The actor said that was essentially what he had to do.
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- “I had to breathe to stay alive, but it also helped
mitigate my pain. It took so much energy to focus on the breath that I didn't
have to worry about my eye or my twisted-up legs or that the bones were broken.
I wasn't even focusing on or feeling that, I had to breathe.
