Originally appeared on E! Online
Guy Fieri is recovering after a brutal freak accident.
The Food Network star was rushed into emergency surgery after he missed a set of stairs, which resulted in him tearing his quad muscle.
“[I] slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold,” Fieri told Fox News Digital in an interview published Monday. “So, you know, it extended me out. I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself the giveaway point and the doctor said he’s never seen — you know, in 20 years — he hasn’t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half.”
The 57-year-old explained he needed to go through with the procedure to make sure that his muscle didn’t “recede.”
“You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone,” he explained, “but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it explode.”
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The “Guy’s Grocery Games” host, who is now using a wheelchair and crutches to get around, was in the middle of filming his new series “Flavor Town Food Fight” when the accident happened, which forced the entire cast and crew to adapt.
“We’ve got everybody in town and all the chefs there and 125 people on set and everybody’s ready to go, and I’m in surgery,” Fieri shared. “So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques. But it’s been a run, and now I’m up here at the ranch, where it’s always about hiking and outdoors, and you know, beautiful.”
For now, the “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” star has to keep weight off of his leg for eight weeks before undergoing rehabilitation.
“I want to get after it as fast as possible,” he said. “He’s like, ‘You know as much as you want to, get back to being Guy, you’re going to really have to go through [it].'”
“I haven’t busted anything,” he went on. “I mean I broke it all as a kid. I broke my leg, broke my knee, broke my wrist, broke my sternum, my ribs, my tailbone. I mean, you know, name it, I broke it. But I got done doing that s—. You know, I got done with that type of behavior long ago.”
As a result of his new constraints as he recovers, Fieri will have to now rely on his sons Hunter, 29, and Ryder, 19, who he shares with wife Lori — as well as his nephew Jules — for Thanksgiving dinner.
As he recalled, “It was funny, my son, Ryder, texted me from school and he said, ‘Well, I guess all the training you’ve given me and all the cooking I’ve been doing while I was at school, it was going to be my time to shine.’ And I said, ‘I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it.”
“So, I got my three boys, Hunter, Ryder and Jules, and they all know how to cook,” Fieri went on. “And now it’s gonna be me quarterbacking from the wheelchair and telling them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people up here. So it’s going to be, it’s got to be an adventure.”
