In an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood, Evangeline Lilly opened up about Jeremy Renner’s current condition, based on her recent visit to his home. Due to the severity of Renner’s injuries as well as what little the public has seen of him recently, Lilly was surprised at the state of his recovery when she finally got to be with him in person. “I walked in his house and got chicken skin,” she said, “because I was like, ‘Why are you mobile, why are you mobile? What’s happening?'”
She continued, “I expected to sit at his bedside and [to] hold his hand while he moaned and groaned in pain and wasn’t able to move.” From her account, it seems that Renner is at least partially beyond needing constant bedrest, and is able to move about as much as he’d like. “He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends, it’s a miracle. It’s a straight up miracle.”
The 51-year-old “Hawkeye” star was run over by a 14,000-pound snow plow while saving his nephew from a similar fate (via The New York Times). He then was taken to the hospital where he remained in the ICU for two weeks. “He’s made of something really tough, that guy,” stated Lilly of Renner’s recovery process. “You’ve always been able to see that in him and he is recovering incredibly. I’m so grateful.”
