Jeremy Renner to discuss recovery from snowplow accident in interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer

Modesto native and actor Jeremy Renner will return to the public eye after being crushed in a devastating snowplow accident on New Year’s Day.

The Beyer High School graduate will appear on a Diane Sawyer ABC News special April 6 to talk about the severe injuries he sustained.

On April 11, he’ll make his first public appearance since the accident at the Los Angeles premiere of his Disney+ series “Rennervations” at a screening and live Q&A session, according to deadline.com.

That four-part series streams beginning April 12 on Disney+.

The show “embraces Jeremy’s lifelong passion to give back to communities around the world by reimagining unique purpose-built vehicles to meet a community’s needs,” according to the Disney+ website.

“I’ve been on this journey for many years, and I started in my community by building vehicles for people in need,” Renner said in a news release from Disney+. “But a few years ago, I thought, how can I plus this up and create a bigger impact on a whole community – and that’s what this show does.

“This is one of my biggest passions and it’s a driving force in my recovery, and I can’t wait for the world to see it.”

In an online trailer for “The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph,” Renner talks to the veteran reporter about the accident and his recovery.

“I was awake through every moment,” he responds after Sawyer asks if he remembers the pain suffered in the accident.

“I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium,” he says later in the trailer.

According to a previous story in The Bee, Renner was with family on his property off Mount Rose Highway near Reno on the Nevada side of the Tahoe Basin. That morning, he went to clear his nephew’s vehicle from the snow after a storm hit, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said in a January news conference.

Renner had used his 14,300-plus-pound heavy-duty snow-removal plow to tow the vehicle free., Balaam said. Afterward, the snowplow began rolling. When Renner tried to get back in to stop it, he was pulled under one of its treads and crushed.

The 52-year-old actor was airlifted to a Reno hospital, where he remained in the intensive care unit for more than a week. Renner kept fans updated on his condition through social media, particularly his Instagram account.

Modesto Bee Staff Writer Marijke Rowland contributed to this report.