Jeremy Renner Writes About Snow Farming 3 Years After The Accident

Jeremy Renner He was three years old and almost died in a snow plowing accident by sharing a pole with a car that hit him.

Posting on her Instagram Stories on Thursday, January 1, the actor, 54, uploaded a photo of a snow plow alongside a simple caption.

“Not today,” he said They don’t take revenge star wrote, adding a wink emoji and a kiss emoji. He added, “The delay of the rain.”

Renner followed up the tongue-in-cheek post with another Instagram Story featuring a photo of a child on the road, surrounded by snow.

“Happy New Year. New Day,” the Dahmer star wrote the shot. “And new ways full of Love and fun.”

On New Year’s Day 2023, the actor was rushed to the hospital after suffering serious injuries in a near-fatal accident where he was crushed by a PistenBully, a snowmobile that weighs more than 14,330 kilograms.

Renner was trying to save his little nephew Alex Fries from being beaten up in a horrific incident that happened near his home in Nevada. As a result of the accident, Renner suffered more than 38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places, a broken tibia and a collapsed lung.

I Hawkeye The star detailed her brush with death in her memoir My Next Breathwhich was released in April 2025.

“As I lay in the snow, my heartbeat slowed down, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, my unknown daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired,” Renner wrote in the book. “After about 30 minutes on the ice, hand breathing for so long, an effort like doing 10 or 20 push-ups a minute for half an hour … that’s when I died.”

He added, “I died, right there on the way to my house.”

Speaking of memory during the April 2025 apparition The Jimmy Fallon ShowRenner admitted that he was initially reluctant to write about the horrific accident in the book.

“I went a year and I was doing really well, and I went again, and then the idea of ​​writing a book came and I said, ‘Oh, God, should I revive this thing?’ It was quite a struggle,” said Renner.

“But I quickly realized that it was important for me to get out of my worst way. “But again, it didn’t occur to me. It happened to my poor nephew, who was holding my arm and watching me bleed and all that stuff. It is healing for him. And to my mom, who had to get that phone call and drive 13 hours in a blizzard to get to me at the hospital. It was healing in many different ways.”

The letter wasn’t the first time Renner had publicly recalled the details of the snowploit accident. He also opened up about the experience in several media interviews including Men’s Health in July 2024.

“I remember every release,” he told the outlet at the time. “I remember my head hitting something and it just pressing down on me – it’s exactly what you think it would feel like. Something that doesn’t move and the force compresses, and something has to give. But thank God my skull didn’t give completely.”