Jeremy Renner; Rich Kovach.Photo: Good Morning America/Twitter (2)
Jeremy Renner’s neighbor is recalling the scary aftermath of hisNew Year’s Day snowplow accident.
“And then he was — he was just in such pain,” he said of theAvengers: Endgameactor, 52. “And the sounds that were coming out of him — and there was so much blood in the snow.”
“And then when I looked at his head itappeared to me to be cracked wide open. And I could see white, I don’t know if that was his skull … maybe it was just my imagination but that’s what I thought I saw,” Kovach added.
On Jan. 1, theOscar-nominated star brokemore than 30 bonesafter his snowplow ran over him while he washelping a family member get a “stuck” vehicleout of the snow at his property outside of Reno, Nevada. Since then, he has undergone multiple surgeries.
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Kovach’s partner Barb Fletcher recalled to Sawyer, 77, that following the accident, she saw “a lot of blood coming from [Renner’s] head and just grabbed one of the towels.”
“It was still folded and just applied pressure. I could tell he was really struggling to breathe,” she said.
Jeremy Renner.Good Morning America/Twitter
In the meantime, Renner’snephew Alex Fries, whom he savedfrom injury, lifted his uncle’s arm, which Sawyer said “seemed to help him breathe.”
" ‘Just breathe, just breathe,’ [we] said," Fries recalled. “I stood over him in this crouched position, holding his arm for the entire time — from seconds after that guy came over, it was just that. I was just locked in on him.”
Renner himself told Sawyer hewas “awake through every moment,“and after trying to move his legs, began wondering what his future would look like.
“I’m thinkin' like, ‘What’s my body look like? Am I just gonna be like a spine in a brain like a science experiment?’ " he said. “Is that my existence now? I sorta felt like, ‘What am I — what’s my existence gonna be like?”
Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interviewairs Thursday at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on ABC News.
source: people.com
