Guy Fieri opened up about the terrifying accident that left him in pain but gave him a new appreciation for health and mobility.
The Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives host exposed to Weekly entertainment that while filming his upcoming Food Network series Flavortown Food Fighthe slipped down the steps of his trailer during a rainy week in Northern California.
The fall left him with a serious injury.
“One of my feet slipped and went all the way down the stairs, and the right leg got caught on the threshold of the door,” Fieri recalled.
“So I’m kind of halfway through the splits going down the stairs, about a three-foot drop, and then it just took that leg and compressed it, snapped my quad muscle in the middle of my leg in half. Literally in the middle.”
The accident required surgery followed by weeks in a wheelchair and then on crutches.
While Fieri has since recovered, the ordeal changed his perspective.
“It gives you appreciation for being healthy,” he said.
“You look at people who have disabilities and realize that we take a lot of things for granted. People who walk on crutches and things like that, you know, the next time you see someone on crutches, maybe clear a little bit of a path. Open the door for them.”
Beyond the physical scars, Fieri said the experience taught him “life’s hard lessons.”
He credited his wife and children for stepping up during his recovery, especially around the holidays.
“Seeing my wife … carrying groceries. It just doesn’t work that way in my world,” he explained.
“My kids got big for Thanksgiving and Christmas, they cooked. There were a lot of silver linings to it. But now I’m better, now I’m back.”
And he’s back in more ways than one.
Fieri previews the new season of the Tournament of Champions and teases a dramatic makeover tied to his partnership with Bosch for Super Bowl LIX.
