Guy Fieriis opening up about a tragic moment that changed his life forever.
TheDiners, Drive-Ins, and Diveshost, 55, revealed on Tuesday’s episode of theNow What?
“I wasn’t driving, I was in the backseat.
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And, unfortunately, I was with a bunch of guys and… we were drinking.”
“This guy saw a cop and he was drinking.
We were camping a half a mile way.
And he took off and we got chased and the car flipped.
And the guy next to me was killed.
It was horrific,” he said.
“Everybody was messed up.
And I had to go Flight for Life in the helicopter and the whole thing.”
“They came to the college and arrested me in my dorm room,” he told hostBrooke Shields.
“It was going bad after worse because everybody was saying that I was, you know…
Anyhow, the cops knew I wasn’t [at fault].”
His father, Lewis James Ferry, also issued his own word of warning to his son afterward.
Fieri recalled, “My dad told me, ‘Cut the sh–.
You’re not invincible.
This is for real now.
You’re not in your hometown anymore.
You’re in Las Vegas.
You’re big time.
You got to focus.'”
“It’s things I teach my kids all the time.
Don’t trust anybody to drive you.
Don’t trust what anybody puts in a drink and gives it to you.
Don’t trust if anybody tells you that this is safe or this is smart,” he said.
“You have to be the master of your domain.
You have to be in control of your environment.”
He also noted the moment changed his perspective on life.
“I was like, ‘Okay, my family didn’t have any money.
I’m not the smartest kid.’
Didn’t get the best grades.
“And if I do that then I have a better chance at getting through this.”
Listen to Fieri discuss the accident and the loss of his sister Morgan Fieri in the podcast episode above.
