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Jeremy Renner Recalls Talking to ‘Imaginary’ Jamie Foxx After Near-Fatal Snowplow Accident; Find Out What Happened
The Avengers star opens up in his new memoir about vivid hallucinations and emotional withdrawal after his 2023 accident.
Jeremy Renner is sharing deeply personal and surreal details from his recovery journey following the snowplow accident that nearly took his life. In his new memoir My Next Breath, the actor revealed that while under heavy medication, he hallucinated entire conversations with Jamie Foxx. He even imagined the two went snowmobiling together.
In a candid excerpt from the memoir, Renner, 54, reflects on the intense effects of his post-accident painkillers, describing how a mix of opioids and benzodiazepines left him talking to curtains— and more vividly, to an illusion of Jamie Foxx. “Jamie Foxx was in my room quite a bit (he wasn’t),” Renner wrote. “We talked about this and that… we went snowmobiling together (we didn’t — there’s no snow in Southern California).”
Renner humorously acknowledged the absurdity of the visions but noted their emotional impact, especially considering Foxx’s own medical scare. At one point, Renner even hoped he had been “there for” Foxx in some cosmic way.
The hallucinations began during his time at home recovering from the 14,000-pound snowplow accident that left him hospitalized on New Year’s Day 2023. After switching from IV medications to pills, his vivid visions began, with his family watching on, half-concerned, half-accustomed. “My mom or Kym would hear me chattering away and think, ‘Jeremy’s just tripping right now,’” he recalled.
Eventually, the actor made the difficult decision to quit pain medication cold turkey — against medical advice — in an effort to reclaim normalcy. The process, he says, was grueling. “For about 36 hours I was crying and shivering, uncontrollable tears,” he wrote. “Doing everything I could to just calm down.” Occasionally, he would take a small dose to ease the transition, but insists things improved once he crossed the withdrawal threshold.
Renner’s honest and often humorous recounting of his recovery is as inspiring as it is revealing. From imagining Foxx’s presence to overcoming physical and emotional pain without medication, his journey shows a raw determination to heal. My Next Breath doesn’t just chronicle survival; it celebrates resilience, absurdity, and the strange.
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