Jeremy Renner is back with new music

It’s been one “wonderfully busy year” since Jeremy Renner had his near-fatal snow plow accident. Since then, he’s been in recovery, trying different therapies, and writing music. Now, he’s ready to share some of those tunes with the world—and head back to the set of his Tyler Sheridan series, Mayor Of Kingstown. “I think I’m ready, and I think I’m strong enough,” Renner told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN’s New Years Eve broadcast. “I literally go back in a week.”

Renner added that he was “blessed that I had so many things to live for. I have a giant family. I have a 10-year-old daughter. I would’ve disappointed and really messed up a lot of people’s lives if I would’ve passed, and so there’s a lot for me to get better for.”

Speaking of his 10-year-old daughter, Ava, she stars in the new music video for Renner’s song “Wait,” the first single off of his EP Love And Titanium. “Reason number One for my recovery is her. I asked her to ‘wait for me’ when I first saw her January 14 as I arrived home,” Renner wrote on Instagram. “As I got better, she got better, less afraid. There is simply no better motivator to recover than to heal your family and friends…. With gratitude always, thank you all for your love and support this last full year. I needed every ounce of goodwill and prayer.”

The Marvel star previously teased a collection of music “about different milestones in my journey of recovery” since the accident on New Year’s Day 2023, which will now debut on January 19. During a radio interview with the Ellen K Morning Show on Tuesday (via People), Renner said, “It’s a musical diary entry, journal entry, and kind of healing and cathartic for me and I’m sharing it because I think a lot of people were on this journey with me and this recovery.” He further shared, “It was so wonderful and healing to me, so I hope it does good things for other people as well.”