Actor Jeremy Renner sat down with reporter Diane Sawyer for his first wide-ranging interview since his New Year’s Day snowplow accident that left him with 30 broken bones and injuries so severe that he wrote down his “last words” to his family should he have passed away. The full interview has now aired, and in it, Renner said he considered end-of-life decisions due to his serious injuries.
“Don’t let me live on tubes on a machine,” Renner said about what he said to his family, as relayed by The Hollywood Reporter. “If my existence is going to be on drugs and painkillers, let me go now.”
After the accident, one of the first responders was Renner’s neighbor, Barb Fletcher, who said they believed Renner might have passed just after the incident.