“Now What? With Brooke Shields” and revealed the true details of what happened during the crash.“I was in a fatality car accident when I was 19 when I was in college,” explained Fieri. “I wasn’t driving, I was in the backseat.
And unfortunately, I was with a bunch of guys and … we were drinking.”The Post reached out to Fieri for comment. According to the internet sensation, the group had been watching drag boat racing moments before the crash. “This guy saw a cop and he was drinking.
We were camping half a mile away. And he took off and we got chased and the car flipped and the guy next to me was killed. It was horrific,” explained the “Guy’s Grocery Games” host. “Everybody was messed up.
And I did go Flight for Life in the helicopter and the whole thing.”Fieri claimed that when he woke up, he was handcuffed to a gurney due to the fact that “everybody in that car [said] I was the one that was driving.”The Emmy award winner told Shields he was then arrested by Nevada police in his dorm room, causing his parents to hire a lawyer. “It was going bad after worse because everybody was saying that I was, you know … Anyhow, the cops knew I wasn’t [responsible],” he said.Fieri also recalled the dire warning his father gave him after the tragic incident. “My dad told me, ‘Cut the s – – t.
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