Freddie Flintoff opens up on crash that just about killed him as its proven for first time
Freddie Flintoff has been opening up extra in regards to the crash that just about killed him forward of it being proven for the primary time.
The star is showing on this weekend’s episode of The Jonathan Ross Present as he talks in regards to the accident that befell whereas filming High Gear in 2022.
This comes because the horror incident is featured within the upcoming Disney+ documentary, Flintoff.
The previous England participant tells host Jonathan Ross that cricket is the one place he now feels ‘most snug’ after ‘every thing that’s occurred over the previous few years’.
Within the trailer of the brand new doc, Flintoff says the crash is ‘so vivid’ in his thoughts as he added that he’s frolicked residing ‘below the radar’ after hypothesis over the accident and his accidents.
That is one thing he touches on throughout Saturday’s (19 April) chat present look.
“No secret that I had a automotive accident filming High Gear. Afterwards, clearly there’s the bodily scars that I’ve obtained. However then the psychological aspect of it,” Flintoff tells Ross. “I didn’t depart the home for in all probability six or eight months. The one occasions I used to be leaving the home was for medical appointments and surgical procedures.”
The crash befell in December 2022 when he flipped a Morgan Tremendous 3 while not carrying a helmet, resulting in BBC ‘resting’ the motoring present and the 47-year-old staying out of the general public eye.
However, one of many sport’s main all-rounders, he finally discovered himself getting again into cricket, watching check matches from a again room away from the gang and carrying a ‘full face masks for months’.
He continues: “That point after I in all probability wanted it most, cricket embraced me once more. I discovered myself again in it. The TV stuff, I nonetheless do the odd job, I’ve obtained payments to pay. However cricket now, again in teaching is my particular future, I’m loving it.”
In September, Flintoff was introduced as the brand new head coach of the England Lions cricket group and final yr had a brand new season of his present, Freddie Flintoff’s Discipline of Desires.
However getting again into the game after the crash nonetheless got here with its personal challenges as he reveals: “I used to be scuffling with crippling anxiousness. I needed to have about 5 or 6 goes at leaving the room. Needed to have a chat with myself within the mirror. I feel as a result of I’d not finished something for such a very long time. I’d not proven myself with out a face masks to anybody. It was like beginning once more.”
And regardless of being well-versed in TV, the presenter does admit that filming Flintoff was ‘fairly unusual’ at first.
“It’s one thing you reside with,” he stated. “For the reason that accident, had the flashbacks, the nightmares and issues… you’re speaking about it, you’re speaking about it rather a lot. I take pleasure in watching the cricket bits, want there was extra of them in it. The toughest half is seeing folks discuss you.”
These days, with extra time having handed because the accident, Flintoff is glad his mates are beginning to have correct banter with him once more, moderately than skirting round it.
“I’d not left the home for some time, gone all the way down to London to go to the workplace,” he explains. “Considered one of my mates was there, I had a bucket hat, glasses and a masks and he stated, ‘F*** me, it’s the invisible man.’ It’s all the time higher when that begins taking place. Again to regular.
“I’m extra accepting of it now, it’s what it’s and transfer on.”
The Jonathan Ross Present airs on 19 April at 10:20pm on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Participant.
Flintoff lands on Disney+ on 25 April.
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