wished his daughter Ava a happy birthday on Tuesday and revealed the important role she played in his recovery.
In January, the , 52, broke .
Marking Ava’s tenth birthday this week, doting dad Jeremy, who shares his daughter with ex Sonni Pacheco, said his little girl had helped him ‘heal so incredibly fast’.
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 sweet post comes days after he was seen .
Last week, the star took part in a physical therapy session and was seen strolling on an anti-gravity treadmill.
Posting the clip on Instagram, Jeremy chatted away to an unnamed acquaintance and explained he was using ‘40 percent of his weight’.
In January, the actor was crushed by a six-tonne snowplough near his home by the Nevada-California state border in the US.
Jeremy has since undergone two surgeries – one to place metal pins around his legs and another operation on his chest – and has since been .
His friend Evangeline Lilly called his recovery a ‘straight up miracle’, telling US outlet : ‘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.’
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