Guy Fieri recently talked about the time he faced a horrific injury that left him wheelchair-bound. The celebrity chef recalled the brutal details of a gruesome fall that caused serious injuries, revealing how that incident changed his perspective on life and health.
Guy Fieri opens up about fall that snapped his muscle
Guy Fieri opened up about the time that an injury left him wheelchair-bound. The 58-year-old told Entertainment Weekly that in November 2025, he suffered a brutal fall while in the middle of production on a new series for Food Network. Unfortunately, the horrible accident left him in a wheelchair, and he had to use crutches. He also had to undergo emergency surgery.
However, the chef is already back in the kitchen, teasing the upcoming season of the reality cooking competition series Tournament of Champions. Not only that, he will also feature in a new Super Bowl ad for Bosch, which will play during halftime on February 8. However, the injury and the long road to recovery left a profound impact on him and made him value his life, health, and mobility more.
Fieri narrated, “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.”
The chef shared that it does give you “appreciation for being healthy.” He further noted, “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.”
