Barb Fletcher; Jeremy Renner.Photo: ABC
Jeremy Renner’s neighbors are recalling finding him in excruciating pain following his terrifyingJan. 1 snowplow accident.
During the 52-year-old Marvel actor’s interview withDiane Sawyer, which is currently airing in full on ABC, his neighborsRich Kovach and Barb Fletcherelaborated on what he went through during the incident’s aftermath in a special titledJeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph.
“He had some blood coming out of his ears, his nose for sure. And then his eye, it looked like it had been pushed out,” Kovach told Sawyer, 77, during the interview.
“It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, and you feel so helpless,” Fletcher added, after the broadcast played snippets of Renner’s moans heardduring Kovach’s 911 call.
“This is the sound of someone that was dying,” Kovach told Sawyer.
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Jeremy Renner; Rich Kovach.Good Morning America/Twitter (2)
Kovach and Fletcher — whom Sawyer said during the broadcast were some of the only neighbors at home that day, a holiday — recalled during the interview that they really believed Renner “did pass away for a couple of seconds,” as Fletcher explained.
“At one point, he just got clammy feel to him, he turned this gray-green color and I feel in my heart that I feel like we lost him for a second,” she told Sawyer. “He closed his eyes. And I just tried to keep him awake.”
“I really feel he did pass away for a couple of seconds. I really do,” she added.
“And then he was — he was just in such pain,” he said of theAvengers: Endgameactor. “And the sounds that were coming out of him — and there was so much blood in the snow.”
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“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.
Fletcher recalled to Sawyer 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.
Diane Sawyer and Jeremy Renner.ABC News
TheNew Year’s Dayaccident resulted in Renner suffering “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” and breaking 30-plus bones, requiring him toundergo multiple surgeriesas a result.
He was initially left in"critical but stable condition"after his snowplow (said to weigh at least 14,330 lbs.) ran him over while he washelping a family member get a “stuck” vehicleout of the snow.
The actor isset to make his first public appearancesince the accident this upcoming Tuesday, when he attends the Los Angeles premiere of his Disney+ reality seriesRennervationsfor a screening and live Q&A portion.
Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumphis airing now on ABC, and will be available to stream on Hulu Friday.
source: people.com
