Making Sense of the Jeremy Renner Accusations

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🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This has gotten ugly. Really ugly. Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner strongly denies accusations from Chinese filmmaker Yi Zhou. She claims he sent her unsolicited pornographic image, sexually assaulted her, and even threatened to call ICE on her. But Renner claims it was Zhou who pursued him and harassed him ... after he rejected her.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:06.2	Hey, folks.
0:07.4	It is Sunday, November 9th, and be straight with you.
0:10.3	Robach and I have had a very difficult time in conversations today about this story and what to make of it.
0:17.1	Hollywood superstar Jeremy Renner has been accused of some atrocious behavior and we're not
0:25.7	exactly sure what it is. Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. You didn't know how we're going
0:33.3	to start this, but is that we see headlines, but then we read details, and we're trying to
0:39.4	make sense of this story about some very serious allegations, including of a non-consensual sexual
0:46.5	encounter. And that's been a lot of our debate here. So we've got a now, I guess, her birthday is today,
0:52.2	you said? Yesterday. Yesterday.
0:54.9	So 38-year-old Asian filmmaker who is claiming, and the way she puts it, is that they had a
1:02.5	non-consensual, sexual encounter that turned consensual.
1:08.3	And that's a confusing statement in and of itself. Is she claiming that he raped her? Is she claiming that he sexually assaulted her? Is she stating something now with the context of him not wanting a further relationship with her, the regret she had? It's hard to know where it all, where it falls. There's a big
1:29.6	gray area. Okay. So we want to deal with, let's get away from interpretation or trying to understand
1:35.3	what somebody might be trying to say. We'll just tell you exactly what she is saying. And the film
1:40.2	director we're talking about here is Ye-Joe. She's not someone necessarily. That's a household name that you will know. She has very limited credits, if you will, as a director, but she's
1:48.4	putting together a couple of films now, including one that Jeremy Renner voiced a character in
1:54.1	that's an animated film, and then another, a documentary she's doing about Disney that he did
1:58.2	an interview for. Yes, yes. He was actually just, he did a kind of a quick interview, I believe, where he was
2:03.7	describing the accident, the life-threatening accident he had in 2023, where he broke 38 bones
2:10.6	in a snowplowing accident. So yes, he lent his interview to that and his voice to another project.
2:16.4	Okay, so that's the extent of their relationship.
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