He says, “It was a silly, tragic accident that happened to this guy. He was saying stuff, and 20 people jumped on him. I was in flip-flops. I don’t do bar fights.
“Did he deserve to get stabbed and almost murdered by 20 people? F**k no.”
Mr Renner was left nursing minor injuries after the brawl in Phuket on January 5, but a member of his party, Vorasit Issara, was hospitalised after he was stabbed in the neck and stomach.
It seems bars are not exactly best places for Mr Renner, as he also tells the Reporter that he once choked a drunken reveller in a bar after the man attacked him for wearing a scarf during a Christmas Eve family get-together.
The unnamed assailant took issue with the actor’s attire but didn’t expect him to retaliate.
Mr Renner adds, “This guy chokes me with the scarf I was wearing. He called me a fag ‘cause I was wearing a scarf. Then he shoved my sister, and I got behind him and choked him out – put him to sleep.”