Guy Fieri is now in a wheelchair after he “slipped down the stairs” while filming “Flavortown Food Fight.”
The Food Network star told FOX News Digital on Monday that he tore his quadriceps muscle “in half” when “one leg went out in front of me and the other got caught on the threshold” during the fall.
When the 57-year-old man was rushed to the hospital, doctors told Fieri that in his 20 years of work, he had never seen a comparable injury to the “largest, thickest” part of the leg.
“Normally that muscle ruptures at the tendon or the tendon is torn from the bone, but this one was right in the middle of the whole quadriceps muscle and it ruptured,” Fieri noted.
The chef was immediately ushered into surgery to check if his muscles had “receded.”
At the time, “everyone was in town” for the show, and 125 people were on set and “ready to go.”
“We tried to figure out how to pivot this situation and use creative filming techniques, but it was tough,” Fieri recalled.
Since the accident, the restaurateur has been getting around with the help of crutches and a wheelchair.
“I have to stop doing that,” Fieri told the outlet. “You won’t be able to walk on it for eight weeks.”
At that point, the Emmy winner will be in a cast and undergo rehabilitation, which he hopes to begin “as soon as possible.”
He did not reveal when the injury occurred, but admitted it was “terrible” and a “dumper”.
His eldest son Hunter took over the reins at Thanksgiving this year, sending Fieri a hilarious message: “It’s your time to shine.”
The “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” star said her youngest son Ryder and nephew Jules also “know how to cook.”
Fieri said, “I’ll be going from a wheelchair to being the quarterback and telling these guys what to do. And we’ll be here cooking for about 40 people. So it’s going to be…an adventure.”
He and his wife Lori Fieri, whom he married in 1995, have two children, Hunter, 29, and Ryder, 19, and he has vowed not to leave an inheritance until they have “earned two degrees.”
