Andrew Flintoff’s wife has admitted ‘she’s never seen someone so scared’ after seeing her husband after his horror crash.
The former cricket star and TV personality was working as a host on Top Gear when he was involved in a near-fatal car crash back in 2022.
Flintoff suffered serious facial injuries as a result of his crashInstagram His wife, Rachael, said that she had never seen anybody look so scaredInstagramDriving a Morgan Super 3 three-wheeled sports car, Flintoff’s car flipped and dragged him across the tarmac of Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.
He had to be airlifted to hospital after suffering broken ribs and serious facial injuries.
In a newly-released documentary callled ‘Flintoff’ on Disney+ his wife, Rachael, revealed how she and their children had to put their emotions aside to protect the terrified 47-year-old.
Speaking in the documentary on Disney+, his wife Rachael said: “I’ve never seen someone so scared in their eyes, and he just stared at me, and I just think he was looking at me to know how bad he was.
“So to be fair, I totally pulled myself together, and I just didn’t cry. I just said, it’s fine.
“You’re going to be okay. I can’t believe how amazing you look.
“Before we got home, I did have I did call the kids, and I did say to them: you’ve just got to be as strong as you’ve ever been. Your dad does look different at the moment.
“It’s going to get better, but I don’t want you to look shocked and horrified, because that’s going to knock him.”
Flintoff spoke in detail about his feelings after the crash.
He said: “After the accident, I didn’t think I had it in me to get through. This sounds awful: part of me wishes I had been killed, part of me thinks ‘I wish I had died.’
Flintoff suffered the injuries when he flipped a car while filming Top GearInstagram Flintoff and his wife have been married since 2005 and share four childrenInstagram“I didn’t want to kill myself, don’t mistake the two things, but I was thinking ‘this would have been so much easier.'”
“My biggest fear was I didn’t think I had a face. I thought my face had come off,” Flintoff added.
“In some ways it would have been easier if I’d gone unconscious and then been unconscious for a week or two, and you wake up and the stitches are out, but I remember everything.
“We’re probably doing about 40, 45 (mph). They were just showing me how to get the car going sideways and the wheel came up on the front. It’s a funny thing rolling a car because there’s a point of no return and everything slows down. It’s so weird.”
Comparing the impact to his experience as an England batsman, Flntoff explained: “You get 0.4 of a second to make your mind up, where the ball is going, what shot you are you going to play, how you are going to move your feet.
“And as it started going over, I looked at the ground, and I knew if I get here on this side (pointing to the side of his head) then I break my neck. If I get hit on the temple, I am dead. The best chance is go face down.
Flintoff is now on the mend and looking to end speculation over what happenedInstagram Flintoff has returned to his first love, cricket, since recoveringInstagram“My head got hit, but then I got dragged out, and the car went over, and I went over the back of the car, and then pulled face down on the runway, about 50 metres underneath the car, and then it hit the grass, and then flipped back in.”
Until now, Flintoff has largely remained out of the public eye as he recovered from his injuries.
Since then he has returned to his first love, cricket, and took a coaching role in the England set-up, before being named the new England Lions coach in September.
Flintoff has also hosted a revival of the popular TV gameshow Bullseye since the accident.
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