The Food Network star Guy Fieri, 57, has been rushed to the hospital after a horrifying freak accident on set.
Fieri Rushed To Hospital
Fieri was reportedly taken in for emergency surgery after he tore his quad muscle by missing a set of stairs. This has left Fieri relying on a wheelchair and crutches to get around.
“[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. “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. Yeah, it sucked.”
Fieri went on to say that he was rushed to surgery after the fall to ensure his muscles didn’t “recede.”
“You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone. But this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded,” Fieri continued.
At the time of the fall, Fieri was filming his new show Flavor Town Food Fight.
“So, right in the middle of filming that and 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,” he recalled. “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.”
Fieri couldn’t help but admit that his injury has been a “damper.”
Fieri’s Thanksgiving Plans
Unfortunately for Fieri, he knows that this injury will negatively impact his Thanksgiving feast this year.
“Oh, it’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair,” Fieri confessed. “I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks. So 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.”
Indeed, for this holiday, Fieri plans to pass the torch to his two sons, Hunter and Ryder, and his nephew Jules.
“So, I got my three boys, Hunter, Ryder and Jules, and they all know how to cook,” the professional chef stated. “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.”
Fieri’s Recovery
As for Fieri himself, he’s in for a long recovery.
“Eight weeks of no weight on it, crutches and a cast and then the rehab, which to me – I want to get after it as fast as possible,” Fieri 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 concluded. “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.”
This has clearly been a very difficult time for Fieri. Please join us in saying a prayer for him!