Jeremy Renner: Rejecting Hawkeye's "Insult Offer" & His Fightback After 14,000lb Snowplough Crash (E348)

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Renner is an award-winning actor known for his roles in films like The Hurt Locker, The Avengers, and Mayor of Kingstown. Beyond the big screen, he’s someone who’s faced serious real-life battles and come out stronger, with a powerful story of resilience and healing.

In this episode, Jeremy opens up about pushing through the toughest moments of his life. He talks about the importance of facing hardships head-on, finding small emotional milestones, and how "gamifying" his recovery helped him stay motivated.

He also shares how vital his support system was, but makes it clear that real recovery had to come from within. His daughter became a huge motivator, and he reflects on how suffering can actually lead to real growth and a deeper connection with others.

This episode is all about finding strength through pain, staying grounded, and choosing happiness no matter what.

Jeremy Renner's My Next Breath is available in all formats now, published by Simon & Schuster UK.

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0:00.0	If you love high performance, next week's episodes are available early exclusively on the high performance app.
0:05.8	Out now, UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall and the man who made the wrecksome deal possible, Humphrey Carr.
0:14.0	To me, it's like you get a seed behind the curtain that comes out. Look, I didn't want to come back.
0:19.4	Maybe just put it that way. Somehow, some way I was pulled back. They asked me to do season two, and they offered me half the money.
0:27.8	Did you think I'm only half to Jeremy because I got ran over? I thought and believed when I woke up in the coma,
0:34.7	is that I had to get better to heal, not for me to get better, but to heal my family.
0:42.9	That is the voice of Marvel actor Jeremy Renner, the Hollywood star known worldwide of his role as
0:48.0	a superhero but whose real life story took a dramatic turn on a snowy country road in
0:53.2	2023.
0:56.8	Whilst clearing snow on his Nevada property,
0:59.5	Jeremy experienced a near-fatal accident that left him with devastating injuries
1:01.4	and a long, painful road to recovery.
1:04.3	38 broken bones, including six broken ribs in 14 places,
1:08.8	three breaks in his lower pelvis,
1:10.7	a broken femur, a broken right ankle.
1:12.6	His left leg was broken, left ankle was broken, right clavicle was broken, his right shoulder blade was broken, his right eye socket and jaw was broken, his left hand was broken, he fractured his wrist, his left foot, had a claps lung, a pierced liver, major head lacerations, and all of this,
1:28.5	Damien, is before we even speak about the mental impacts of such injuries. I mean, truly
1:33.4	incredible. Well, two years on from that fateful day, Jeremy sat down with us from the gym of a rented
1:38.4	house where he's filming his latest TV project to share the experience of it with high performance. It's really fascinating how he talks
1:46.7	about a breathing technique that he learned as a kid and how it saved his life and why despite the
1:51.6	trauma he's been through, he wouldn't go back to his life as it was before the incident.
1:56.7	The bit that really stood out for me though was when he gets emotional sharing the pain of
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