Guy Fieri is wheelchair-bound after “slipping down the stairs” during the filming of “Flavortown Food Fight”.
The Food Network star told Fox News Digital on Monday that during the fall “one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold” — causing her quad muscle to be torn “in half.”
When the 57-year-old man was taken to the hospital, the doctor told Fieri that in his 20 years on the job he had never seen a comparable injury to the “biggest, thickest” part of the leg.
“You normally tear that muscle into your tendon or the tendon tears the bone, but this was right in the middle of the entire quad muscle and it tore,” Fieri said.
The chef was taken straight to surgery to make sure his muscles didn’t “withdraw”.
At the time, “everyone was in town” for the show and 125 people were on set and “ready to go.”
Fieri recalled, “We figured out how to move through it and employed some creative filming techniques. But it’s been an effort.”
Since the accident, the restaurant owner is walking with the help of crutches and a wheelchair.
“I have to stay away from it,” Fieri told the outlet. “I can’t walk on this for eight weeks.”
At that time, the Emmy winner will get a cast and undergo rehabilitation — which he wants to start “as soon as possible.”
He did not say when the injury occurred, but he confirmed that “it sucked” and was a “damper”.
His eldest son, Hunter, is taking over the reins this Thanksgiving and sent Fieri a hilarious message saying it’s his “time to shine.”
The “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” star added that her youngest son, Ryder, and nephew, Jules, also “know how to cook.”
Fieri said, “I have to quarterback from a wheelchair and tell them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people here. So it’s going to be… an adventure.”
He shares Hunter, 29, and Ryder, 19, with wife Lori Fieri, whom he married in 1995, and has vowed not to leave them any inheritance until they “get two degrees.”
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