Jeremy Renner celebrates his ‘ReBirthday’ on second anniversary of snowplow accident

Jeremy Renner is especially grateful this time of year.

The Mayor of Kingstown actor took time on New Year’s Day to acknowledge his survival from the life-threatening incident he survived on Jan. 1, 2023, near his vacation home in Reno, Nevada. It was then that he was run over by a snowplow while attempting to stop it from rolling into his nephew,. He was airlifted the hospital, and it caused extensive damage to his body.

“Happy New Year blessings to you all,” he began the post below. “Ringing in my second ‘ReBirthday’ today. I send out my love, respect, and gratitude for the army of people that it took to put me back together again. Thank you to each and every nurse, doctor, first responder… I literally owe you my life. All my heart goes out to my beautiful, brave nephew and the angels (my neighbors) who jumped to my aid and endured the chaos for 45 long minutes on the icy asphalt New Years morning. I’m so sorry all the haunting images I imprinted on you all.”

Renner suffered life-threatening injuries in the accident, including “30-plus broken bones,” a lacerated liver, and a collapsed lung. He endured a lot of pain and countless physical therapy sessions, even having to learn to walk again.

In his new post, Renner said his gratitude list is “very long.”

“With the amount of love and prayers that flooded in from you all around the world (needing each and everyone of them), my family never leaving my side, with some divine intervention, a bit of luck and a whole lot of miracles … I stand strong again. More Open. More Loved. More Connected. And f—ing BLESSED to take my next step, to take MY NEXT BREATH. Thank you with every fiber and cell in my body. I love you ALL.”

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Renner, who’s perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, currently stars in the Paramount+ crime drama Mayor of Kingstown. He plays main character Mike McClusky in the Taylor Sheridan-produced series about a family of power brokers attempting to bring order and justice to a city tied to the business of incarceration.

He’s explained that, since the accident, he’s not interested in challenging roles, at least for now.

“I just don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel,” he said in a June appearance on the Smartless podcast. “I have so much fuel to put into this reality, this body, all this stuff. I can’t just go play make-believe right now.”

It was difficult for him to step in front of the camera again.

“Because I’m to do, like, f––ing fiction?” Renner said. “I’m still trying to live in reality, I’m trying to live. So it was a hard line for me to cross. It was a big stretch. It was very, very challenging for me mentally to get over that hump.”

Technically, Renner turns 54 on Jan. 7.