Jeremy Renner says he’d get run over by a snowplow “again” if it meant saving his nephew.<br /><br />“I’d do it again,” he tells a shocked Diane Sawyer in his first sit-down interview since the freak accident. “Yeah, I’d do it again because it’s going right at my nephew.”<br /><br />The interview, which will air in full on Thursday, April 6, shows Renner reflecting on the excruciating pain he felt when he believed he was “dying” after being hit.<br /><br />“[I felt] all of [the pain],” he shares before brutal audio of his 9-1-1 call plays. “I was awake through every moment.”<br /><br />Despite his injuries, which include shattered ribs, a broken mandible, broken leg and so much more, the “Avengers” star hopes one day to get back to performing his own stunts<br />I chose to survive, it’s not going to kill me, no way,” he says of his injuries. “I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.”<br /><br />Renner, 52, was run over by his own snowplow on New Year’s Day when he pushed his nephew out of the rolling machine’s way.<br /><br />He sustained “blunt chest trauma” that required him to be airlifted and to undergo emergency surgery.<br />The “Hurt Locker” star returned home from the hospital a couple of weeks later and started documenting his intense rehabilitation and upright exercises, which he began just two months after the accident.<br /><br />“Whatever it takes,” he captioned a video of himself working out.<br /><br />Renner’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” co-star Evangeline Lilly called his recovery a “miracle.”<br /><br />“He’s made of something really tough, that guy,” she said last month. “You’ve always been able to see that in him. He is recovering incredibly, and I’m so grateful.
