Jeremy Renner’s neighbour has spoken for the first time about what happened in the moments after the actor was almost crushed to death by a snowplough near his home and the details aren’t for the faint-hearted.
In a new preview clip for the Avengers actor’s tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer which airs this evening in America, Rich Kovach reveals he was overwhelmed by the “amount of blood” he saw.
“And then he was — he was just in such pain. And the sounds that were coming out of him — and there was so much blood in the snow,” Mr Kovach can be seen telling the camera, in the clip which was shown on Wednesday’s edition of Good Morning America.
Adding: “And then when I looked at his head it appeared to me to be cracked wide open. And I could see white, I don’t know if that was his skull ... maybe it was just my imagination but that’s what I thought I saw.”
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His account makes the fact that Renner is still alive sound all the more incredible.
On January 1, the Mayor of Kingstown star, 52, was left in critical condition after “breaking more than 30 bones” while trying to save a family member from the path of the six-tonne machine near his Lake Tahoe home close to the Nevada-California state border in the US.
He has been regularly keeping his fans updated online as he continues to recover from his injuries, with one post seeing him vow he would do “whatever it takes” to get back to full strength.
