Guy Fieri in wheelchair after major fall prompted emergency surgery

Guy Fieri is opening up about a dramatic accident that landed him in the hospital.

The celebrity chef, 57, told Fox News Digital in a new interview published Wednesday, Nov. 26, that he is using a wheelchair after a severe tear in his quad muscle prompted emergency surgery.

Fieri, who fell when he "slipped down the steps," said "one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold. So, you know, it extended me out. I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself, the giveaway point."

He said his doctor claimed "in 20 years he hasn't seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half," the Food Network star continued. "Yeah, it sucked."

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"You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone, but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded," Fieri, who was rushed into emergency surgery following the incident, told Fox. He revealed to the outlet that he was in the midst of filming his new show, "Flavor Town Food Fight," when the fall occurred.

"We've got everybody in town and all the chefs there and 125 people on set and everybody's ready to go and I'm in surgery," he explained. "So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques."

Fieri said he's now "on crutches and in a wheelchair," adding that the injury put a "damper" on his Thanksgiving plans. "Now it's gonna be me quarterbacking from the wheelchair and telling them what to do. And we cook for about 40 people up here. So it's going to be, it's got to be an adventure."