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Guy Fieri is opening up to EW about the gruesome details of a fall that left him with serious injuries that he first detailed in November.
While shooting the new Food Network series Flavortown Food Fight, Fieri slipped down the stairs on his trailer, which he says, "snapped my quad muscle on the center of my leg in half."
Though he's mostly recovered now, Fieri says the injury has given him "appreciation for being healthy."
Guy Fieriis sharing some gruesome new details about a recent injury that left him grateful for his health and mobility.
The celebrity chef and Food Network mainstay revealed back in November that hesuffered a nasty fallwhile in production on a new series for the culinary channel. The accident left him in a wheelchair and then on crutches, requiring emergency surgery.
Harnessing his characteristically boundless energy, Fieri is already back on his feet,previewingthe upcoming season of the reality cooking competition seriesTournament of Championsand startling fans with aradical new lookas part of his partnership with Bosch forSuper BowlLIX.
But the injury and long road to recovery have had a lasting impact on him, which he detailed in a recent interview withEntertainment Weeklythat also touched on dramatic new aspects of the fall.
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"I was in the middle of filming a new show that we're doing for Food Network calledFlavortown Food Fight, where I'm the mayor, go figure," Fieri tells EW with a boisterous laugh. "We had a rainy week in Northern California and I was walking out of my trailer and my one foot slipped and went all the way down the stairs, and the right leg got caught on the threshold of the door. So I'm kind of halfway doing 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 on the center of my leg in half. Literally in half."
Fieri doesn't seem able to believe his own story even now, shaking his head as he recounts how quickly it all happened, and how immediately the pain ripped through his body.
The injury ultimately required surgery, which required Fieri to utilize a wheelchair and then crutches. "It does give you appreciation for being healthy. You look at people that have disabilities and realize, we take a lot of things for granted. Folks that are on crutches and stuff, you know, the next time you see somebody on crutches, maybe clear a little bit of a path. Open the door for them," he suggests.
That isn't the only lasting effect the injury has had on Fieri. Beyond the physical scars, Fieri says he's learned a lesson about "life's hard lessons" themselves.
"I'm at the point now where I just take every day with appreciation. I've always been that way as a person, but especially this thing of not being able to get around, and watching my wife, like, we come back to the grocery store and she's carrying the groceries. That's just not how it works in my world," he shares. "She's like, 'You've done it forever. I can do this.' My kids stepped up big at Thanksgiving and Christmas, they did the cooking. There was a lot of silver linings to it. But now I'm better, now I'm back."
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Fieri is back alright, though not in the form that fans have come to recognize and adore.
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Last week, theDiners, Drive-Ins & Diveshost startled his 2.3 million Instagram followers with acryptic videothat teased a dramatic makeover. Gone were his signature icy spikes and goatee. But why?
Fieri dropped more breadcrumbs on Monday. He revealed the transformation is part of a partnership with Bosch ahead of February's big game.
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In the same conversation with EW,Fieri explained, "My commitment to doing this was, 'Okay, we're playing big ball. And I'll play. What it turned out to be, what people are going to see," he teased, "I'm just gonna turn my phone off for about three weeks after this, because people are gonna hammer me."
Look out for Fieri's full ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on NBC.
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