A visit down reminiscence lane. Jeremy Renner rang in his daughter Ava’s ninth birthday with a touching Instagram tribute.
“As you took your FIRST breath, gripping my finger tightly (palmers reflex), I immediately understood my directive in life as a father,” the actor, 51, captioned a throwback photograph along with his sleeping toddler on Monday, March 28. “That If I do proper by you, we can be holding palms as I take my LAST breath. Completely happy Birthday to my primary #proudpapa.”
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The California native welcomed his baby in March 2013 with then-wife Sonni Pacheco. The previous couple cut up the next yr, finalizing their divorce in 2015. The exes have since been engaged in a contentious custody battle.
The mannequin, 30, alleged in 2019 court docket paperwork that Renner had beforehand threatened to kill her and himself, happening to say a historical past of verbal, emotional and substance abuse.
Renner’s rep completely instructed Us Weekly on the time that Ava’s well-being was the Hawkeye star’s “main focus,” including, “This can be a matter for the court docket to resolve. It’s necessary to notice the dramatizations made in Sonni’s declaration are a one-sided account made with a selected purpose in thoughts.”
Whereas the Canada native slammed Renner the next yr as he requested to decrease baby assist funds amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Oscar nominee subsequently accused his ex of eradicating greater than $50,000 from Ava’s fund “for her personal private profit.”
Pacheco denied the allegations — simply as Renner denied her abuse claims in November 2021.
“I don’t reply publicly or privately to nonsense,” the American Hustle star instructed Males’s Well being on the time. “It solely empowers it. … In the event you reply to it, you give it fuel. I don’t gas s—t fires. I simply don’t do it. I refuse to.”
Whereas the Marvel Universe member tends to maintain his household life non-public, he has given glimpses of his and Ava’s Fourth of July celebrations, set visits, boat rides and extra over time.
“Thanks, dad for setting the bar so excessive for me to turn into one of the best Father I could be … and to my candy darlin Ava, you’ll ALWAYS be ‘The Greatest A part of Me,’” the Damage Locker star captioned a black-and-white photograph with the baby throughout their June 2021 Father’s Day celebration.
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