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'I'm different to what I was': Freddie Flintoff opens up about life after horrific car crash
The Guardian
|August 06, 2024
More than 18 months after a horrific accident on the set of Top Gear, Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff has revealed his struggles with anxiety, nightmares and flashbacks after suffering life-changing injuries.
Flintoff was driving an open-topped, three-wheel car when it flipped and slid along the track at Surrey's Dunsfold aerodome in December 2022. He was airlifted to hospital with facial injuries and broken ribs.
In a new BBC show, Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour, the 46-year-old former England star revealed how he was "crying every two minutes" and left his home only for medical appointments in the seven months after the crash in a Morgan Super 3.
In the docuseries, a sequel to 2022's Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams, he takes a group of young people from his home town of Preston on a cricketing tour of India - a trip that had to be postponed after the crash.
The first episode shows Flintoff in what appears to be a hospital bed talking about the crash. "I genuinely should not be here with what happened," he said.
"This will be a long road back and I've only just started. I'm stuck already. I need help, and I realise I'm not the best at asking for it. I need to stop crying every two minutes." He added: "I've got to look at the positives, haven't I? I'm still here.
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