Jeremy Renner has made a heartwarming comment about how loving his child helped to "heal" him in a recent interview.
The 52-year-old Marvel actor gushed over his daughter Ava Berlin as he celebrated her 10th birthday this week.
Renner shares Ava - his only child - with his ex-wife, Canadian model Sonni Pacheco. The pair were married in 2014 and divorced the following year.
Taking to social media, the Academy-Award nominee posted on his Instagram story: "Happy 10th Birthday to you!!!! So very proud of you in every way. Your hugs and your love, have healed me so incredibly fast. I stand up for you, and I am stronger than before because of you," Renner continued. "I am your Father, I am your protector, and I am only yours. I love you, Daddy."
Renner had an incredibly difficult start to 2023, after the actor was involved in a serious snow plow accident on New Year's Eve. He had been helping a stranded family member whose car had broken down close to his mountain home in Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe, Nevada, when a severe winter storm hit the area.
During his good deed, he was unfortunately "run over" by "an extremely large piece of snow removal equipment" that reportedly weighed "around 14,330 pounds," and had to be airlifted to the hospital in critical condition.
TMZ released audio from the actor's 911 call, in which can be heard moaning in pain in the background of the desperate emergency call, as the neighbor explained his blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. In the audio clip, the unidentified neighbor can be heard telling the female operator: "Immediately, somebody has been run over by a Snowcat, hurry."
"Phone paramedics, ambulance," he continued before he was interrupted by the woman who is heard saying "everyone is on their way right now".
A pause in the phone call gives way to the painful moans from the actor who friends said nearly "bled out" during the incident, per Daily Mail. "Listen to me, you might want to get lifeline out here immediately," the clearly distressed man urgently said. "Ok, give me one second," the 911 conductor responded before asking "where is he bleeding from?"
"He got crushed up on his right side," the male caller continued as he observed Renner's injuries. "His right chest and upper torso, his ribs, they look like they might be crushed. He’s got a head wound as well."