Jeremy Renner was ready for the calendar to flip over.
At the start of last year, the “Avengers” actor nearly lost his life in a frightening snowplow accident. He discussed his road to recovery on CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
“I think I’m ready,” Renner told the program’s hosts, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. “I think I’m strong enough. We’ll see. I mean, I literally go back in a week.”
The actor was referencing beginning to film for his Paramount+ drama, “Mayor of Kingstown,” post-injuries.
New Year’s Day of 2023, Renner was crushed beneath a snowplow on his property in Nevada and had to be airlifted to a hospital. He was discharged after two weeks.
“I am just so blessed that I had so many things to live for,” he told the hosts. “I have a giant family. I have a 10-year-old daughter. I would’ve disappointed and really messed up a lot of people’s lives if I would’ve passed, and so there’s a lot for me to get better for.”
The actor jokingly referred to himself as a “pretty stubborn S.O.B.”
“I never thought about my own physical ailments, my own pain, or my own anguish. I had so many things to fight for, so the one-way road of recovery was my mental attitude, and that attitude was always to get better. There's no option other than that. And I still work at every part, every day, and thank God that I have a lot to fight for,” he said.