Jeremy Renner reveals harrowing details in his memoir about a near-fatal snowplow accident in January 2023, where he was run over and sustained severe injuries. During this incident, his heart rate dropped to 18 beats per minute, rendering him 'basically dead' before being revived by emergency responders. Renner describes a profound out-of-body experience during his brief period of clinical death, characterized by an overwhelming sense of peace and connection with an electric energy. Despite the severity of his injuries, he remarkably recovered and returned to filming his television show, 'Mayor of Kingstown,' just over a year later. The memoir not only recounts his physical ordeal and recovery but also delves into the emotional journey of writing about such a transformative experience.

Jeremy Renner experienced a severe snowplow accident in January 2023, which left him with critical injuries and, at one point, clinically dead with a heart rate of just 18 beats per minute.

In his memoir 'My Next Breath,' Renner vividly describes the moments of his near-death experience, where he felt a sense of energy and connection to everything around him, transcending time and space.

While he lay on the ice, he experienced a state of electric serenity, where time ceased to exist, and he felt an exhilarating yet tranquil adrenaline rush.

Renner's account includes a detailed depiction of being in a place filled with a 'knowable magic,' suggesting a profound spiritual or existential realization during his brief death.

After his recovery, Renner successfully returned to work, resuming his role in the series 'Mayor of Kingstown,' highlighting his remarkable physical and emotional resilience.

The process of writing and publishing his memoir was emotionally challenging for Renner, as it required revisiting a traumatic and life-altering event.

Renner's experience and recovery journey offer insights into the fragility of life and the profound impact of near-death experiences on personal outlook and growth.

Jeremy Renner is giving intense new details about his near-fatal snowplow accident.

If you didn’t know, the 54-year-old actor was left with severe injuries after being run over by a snowplow in January 2023. Thankfully, he recovered, and was able to return to the set of his hit show Mayor of Kingstown just over a year later.

In Jeremy‘s new memoir “My Next Breath,” he recalled the harrowing experience of briefly dying and being brought back to life.

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“As I lay on the ice, my heart rate slowed, and right there, on that New Year’s Day, unknown to my daughter, my sisters, my friends, my father, my mother, I just got tired. After about thirty minutes on the ice of breathing manually for so long, an effort akin to doing ten or twenty push-­ups per minute for half an hour . . . that’s when I died. I died, right there on the driveway to my house. I know I died—in fact, I’m sure of it. When the EMTs arrived, they noted that my heart rate had bottomed out at 18, and at 18 beats per minute, you’re basically dead,” he wrote, per E!

He also gave a vivid description of what he remembers in the moments where he was considered legally dead.

“When I died, what I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy. There was no time, place, or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy. I was in space: no sound, no wind, nothing save this extraordinary electricity by which I am connected to everybody and anything, anyone and everything. I am in every given moment, in one instant, magnified to a number ungovernable by math,” he said.

“What came to me on that ice was an exhilarating peace, the most profound adrenaline rush, yet an entirely tranquil one at the same time: electric serenity. I can still feel that space, silent, still, empty, but filled with every instant and all the forevers and, for the first time ever, my existence has nothing to do with time. It was an entirely beautiful place, filled with a knowable magic,” he added.

If you didn’t see, last week, Jeremy discussed the emotional process of writing and publishing his memoir.