“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.”