Guy Fieri injury: Celebrity chef reveals horror fall and torn quad

Guy Fieri appreciates health after tearing a quad muscle in a fall during filming. Photo / AFP

Guy Fieri has “appreciation for being healthy” after suffering a horror injury when he fell down some stairs.

The 58-year-old celebrity chef was left with a torn quad muscle after suffering a nasty fall when working on a Food Network series in November, and has confessed that he is grateful for his health and mobility as he had to recover in a wheelchair and then on crutches having undergone surgery.

Fieri told Entertainment Weekly: “It does give you appreciation for being healthy. You look at people that have disabilities and realise, 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.”

The restaurateur revealed that his calf muscle had been snapped “in half” as a result of the fall.

He recalled: “I was in the middle of filming a new show that we’re doing for Food Network called Flavortown Food Fight, where I’m the mayor, go figure.

“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 [91cm] drop, and then it just took that leg and compressed it, snapped my quad muscle on the centre of my leg in half. Literally in half.”

Fieri explained that the injury has taught him about “life’s hard lessons”.

He said: “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.

“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.”