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Jeremy Renner Recalls Seeing 'My Left Eye with My Right Eye' After Near-Fatal 2023 Accident

PEOPLE has an exclusive excerpt of Renner's new memoir 'My Next Breath,' in which he revisits the incident and its grueling aftermath.

The Avengers actor, 54, made headlines after being nearly crushed to death in his driveway by his 14,000 pound Snowcat plow on Jan. 1, 2023, and now, he's sharing new details and an exclusive excerpt about the incident in his new memoir My Next Breath, due out April 29. When she’d awoken that morning, my sweet daughter had been expecting to have me bound back in from clearing a path into an exciting new year, finally freed from the grip of the storm, heading up the mountain and hopefully onto the slopes to ski and snowboard and spend a magical day with her father. Instead, here she was, in a hotel room in Reno, being told that I’d been in an accident, that she couldn’t see me, that I would eventually get better ... And in the face of this unbearable swerve in her life, she’d retreated to videos of us, her silence more heartshatteringly eloquent than any words she could have said.

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