On Tuesday, Jeremy Renner wished his daughter Ava a happy birthday and highlighted the critical role she played in his recovery.
In a tragic snow plough accident in January, the Marvel star, 52, fractured more than 30 bones.
Doting father Jeremy, who shares his daughter with ex Sonni Pacheco, claimed his little child had helped him ‘heal so amazingly fast’ as Ava turned 10 this week.
Posting a photo of the pair, he said in full: ‘Happy 10th Birthday to you!!!! So very proud of you in every way. Your hugs and your love, have healed me so incredibly fast.’
The actor went on: ‘I stand up for you, and I am stronger than before because of you. I am your Father, I am your protector, and I am only yours. I love you, daddy.’ [sic]
Jeremy’s touching message comes only days after he was photographed walking for the first time since the injury.
Last week, the singer was spotted strolling on an anti-gravity treadmill during a physical therapy session.
Posting the film on Instagram, Jeremy talked away to an unknown buddy and stated he was utilising ’40 percent of his weight’.
The actor was crushed by a six-tonne snowplough near his house on the Nevada-California state line in the United States in January.
Jeremy has subsequently had two operations, one to insert metal pins around his legs and another on his chest, and has been’moving himself around’ in a wheelchair.
His friend Evangeline Lilly called his recovery a ‘straight up miracle’, telling US outlet Access Hollywood: ‘I walked in his house and got chicken skin, because I was like, “Why are you mobile? Why are you mobile? What’s happening?”
‘I expected to sit at his bedside and hold his hand while he moaned and groaned in pain and wasn’t able to move. He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It’s a miracle, a straight-up miracle.
‘He’s made of something really tough, that guy. You’ve always been able to see that in him. He is recovering incredibly, and I’m so grateful.’