Overview

• On The One Show on June 11, Renner said his nerve endings felt like they were "on fire and electrocuted and melting" as he struggled to breathe under a seven-tonne snowplough.
• The 54-year-old actor broke 38 bones, suffered a collapsed lung, a lacerated liver and even had an eyeball pop out of its socket during the incident.
• Renner credited lessons from antenatal classes with his mother for giving him the breath-control skills that kept him conscious and mitigated his pain for about 45 minutes.
• He revealed he tried to clamber back onto the machine to stop his nephew, Alexander Fries, from being "crushed like a compactor."
• In his April memoir My Next Breath, Renner reframes the event as an "incident" and underscores the crucial role of family support in his recovery.