Jeremy Renner Says Anthony Mackie 'Was At My Bedside' Following Snowplow Accident

Marvel actor Jeremy Renner recently sat down with Diane Sawyer and spoke out for the first time since his life-threatening snow plow accident.

Renner was hospitalized at the beginning of January for blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries following a terrifying Sno-Cat accident while trying to save his nephew. The Snow-Cat, which weighed at least 14,330 pounds, ran him over and crushed him, leaving him fighting for his life.

Three months after the snow plow accident, Jeremy Renner sat down with Diane Sawyer for his first televised interview titled "Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival, and Triumph."

When speaking to Diane Sawyer, Jeremy Renner revealed that fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe actor Anthony Mackie " was at my bedside" as he recovered from his life-threatening injuries.

"[Anthony] Mackie was at my bedside in Reno," Renner told Sawyer, adding that some of his other Marvel costars, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, and Evangeline Lilly, also sent kind words and messages to him while he was hospitalized.

Lilly spoke out about Renner's accident in February, telling Access Renner "has recovered like a mo-fo."

"I walked in his house and got chicken skin, 'cause I was like, 'Why are you mobile? Why are you mobile? What's happening?' I expected to sit at his bedside and hold his hand while he moaned, groaned in pain, and couldn't move," the Marvel actress said. "He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It's a miracle, a straight-up miracle."

As the ABC special, "Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival, and Triumph," aired, viewers watched as Jeremy Renner sat in a wheelchair and prepared to speak out in his first televised interview since the accident. We hear Sawyer ask Renner how much pain he remembers, to which the "Hawkeye" actor replies with, "All of it."

"I was awake through every moment," he added, holding back tears.

According to Sawyer in the interview, Renner suffered from "eight ribs broken in 14 places. Right knee, right ankle broken, left leg tibia broken, left ankle broken, right clavicle broken, right shoulder broken. The face, eye socket, jaw, and mandible are broken. Lung collapsed. Pierced from the rib bone, your liver — which sounds terrifying."

After learning about his injuries from the accident, Renner recalls thinking, "What's my body going to look like? Am I just going to be a spine and a brain, like a science experiment?"

The Marvel actor was in critical condition in the hospital, leaving him to write a goodbye note to his family, thinking he may not make it. "I heard that you had, in sign language, you said to your family, 'I'm sorry.'" Sawyer said in the promo, to which Renner said, "I chose to survive. That's not gonna kill me no way," says. "I've lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I've been refueled and refilled with love and titanium."

Sawyer then asked the actor, "When you look in the mirror, do you see a new face?" Renner replied, "No, I see a lucky man."

The ABC News special, titled "Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival, and Triumph," is available to stream on Hulu.