Jeremy Renner Describes Dying After Snowplow Accident

Jeremy Renner says he’s “sure” that he died on his driveway after a snowplow ran him over in 2023. In his new memoir, My Next Breath, he offers a pretty trippy description of what that moment felt like. “I could see my lifetime. I could see everything all at once,” the actor wrote in part, per Us Weekly. “In death there was no time, no time at all, yet it was also all time and forever.” He said he was at “exhilarating peace” and described feeling a “constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,” noting that 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.” Ultimately, Renner recalled coming back to life after a force instructed him not to “let go.”

According to Renner, his temporary death happened after he had been lying on the ice for about 30 minutes, waiting for first responders to arrive. He later learned from EMTs that his “heart rate had bottomed out at 18,” making him “basically dead,” though he also asserts in the memoir, “I know I died — in fact, I’m sure of it.” Renner, who broke more than 30 bones and lost six quarts of blood in the accident, had stepped in front of the machine to try to stop it from crushing his nephew. He reflected that the celebration of the New Year is also now “a recognition of the depth of the love in our family.” Sounds like he might celebrate it as a second birthday of sorts, too.