Now the Marvel star has spoken about his miracle comeback after a horror snow plough accident that cracked his skull and almost killed him.
The 53-year-old superhero actor had his chest and legs crushed by the six and a half tonne machine as he tried to stop it rolling onto his nephew.
The near fatal injuries were so bad that he could see one eyeball with the other and in hospital he wrote down what he thought might be his dying words.
But just 18 months after the horrific freak accident he has returned to TV screens for the third series of the TV drama Mayor of Kingstown
and next year he will star in the third Knives Out murder mystery movie with Daniel Craig.
The American Hurt Locker star needed emergency surgery, several operations, daily works out,
an antigravity treadmill, an anti-inflammatory diet and turned his home into a rehab centre.
Even now every day is a struggle.
Talking about the accident, where his huge snow plough rolled over him on New Year’s Day in 2023 outside his home in Washoe County, Nevada, he told Men’s Health magazine: “I remember my head cracking on the thing and it just pressing on me – it’s exactly like you think it would feel.
“An immovable object and a crushing force and something’s got to give.
“But thank God my skull didn’t fully give.”
He added: “I could see my left eyeball with my right eyeball.
“I was screaming for a breath.
“I needed to shove all my energy of air out just so I could suck air back in.”
After a 12ft snowfall, Jeremy had been using his snow plough to help others get moving again, including trying to tow his nephew Sawyer’s truck.
But then the plough started to roll down the hill and as it did so Jeremy attempted to jump into the vehicle, to save Sawyer.
Instead he was pulled beneath its tracks.
His neighbours called the emergency services, who were able to get him out from underneath the plough, stem the bleeding and get him to hospital.
Jeremy said: “I remember being intubated, I got handcuffed in restraints”
Because he had the tube down his throat to help him breath he was unable to speak to his worried family.
After the first operation he was placed on life support for two weeks.
The shock was terrible for them, with him telling TV host Jimmy Fallon: “It happened to my parents, it happened to my poor daughter, it happened to my nephew who was there.”
Using sign language he told his relatives he was “sorry” and later wrote his last wishes on his smartphone.
Tearfully, Jeremy, who has an 11-year-old daughter Ava, recalled that he left a message saying: “Don’t let me live on tubes or on machines and if my existence is going to be on drugs or painkillers, just let me go now.”
Thanks to the medical team, he was able to breathe by himself again.
But the pain from all the broken bones, including his ribs, pelvis and jaw, was so intense that it was hard to cope.
He has titanium in his face to support his wrecked eye socket, the same metal was used to rebuild his rib cage and rods were placed in one leg.
His friends rallied around, with fellow Avengers actor Anthony Mackie the first co-star he saw after he woke up in hospital and Robert Downey Jr making regular calls helping to keep his mind off the injuries.
The first daily challenge was getting out of bed.
Jeremy said: “It took me 17 minutes to get out of bed. I was happy to sometimes sit up and push myself into a chair.”
Then it was learning how to walk again, through intense physio.
Three months after the accident he posted photographs of himself with a walking stick and a mobility scooter at a funfair.
Every day there was “countless hours of physical therapy, peptide injections, iv drips and pushes, stem cell and exosomes, red light / IR therapy, hyperbaric chamber 2.0 atmospheres, cold plunge, and the list goes on and on.”
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