Renner, who appeared on the show to promote his new memoir My Next Breath, was crushed by a 14,000-pound snow plow while trying to stop the machine from running over his nephew on New Year’s Day in 2023, leaving him with more than 30 broken bones.

The View's Whoopi Goldberg Compares Jeremy Renner's Near Death Experience To 'Ghost': “It's Not Just A Movie”

In his memoir, Renner writes that he “died right there on the driveway to [his] house” after the harrowing accident. During his chat on The View, Alyssa Farah Griffin asked him to share what he remembered from dying.

“It’s always kind of tough to talk about,” he said. “But I realize that, in time, there are so many shared experiences that people have when they have a near-death experience. It’s like a real thing. And how congruent they all are, the similar experiences. And I think it’s quite beautiful.”

“I can say this — love is the only thing that you take with you,” Renner continued. “It is the only thing essential and that exists only in life here now in our bodies and in our spirit. It’s the DNA of our spirit. Love is the only thing that really matters. Like, hate can’t exist. It only exists on the coattails of love.”

He added, “It’s a pretty beautiful space. Sadly, I got ripped back from this beautiful space into a busted old body. I saw my eyeball and my twisted legs and I’m like, ‘OK, I got to figure this out.’”

Renner’s sentiments about love reminded Goldberg of a little movie she did called Ghost, which earned her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 1991 Academy Awards. In the movie, Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) are madly in love — until he’s murdered over a shady business deal and left to roam the earth in purgatory. When he comes across psychic medium Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg) and learns the truth about his murder, he enlists her help to expose what really happened and protect Molly at all costs.
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“There are lots of reasons to try to remain when you feel you’re on your way out,” Goldberg told Renner. “That’s the movie Ghost. It’s love — you take it with you. That’s the last thing he says, I think, to Molly. So, it’s good to know it’s not just a movie line.”