Freddie Flintoff reveals why he doesn't speak to Paddy McGuinness after crash

Freddie Flintoff has revealed the reason why he hasn't stayed in contact much with former Top Gear co-presenter after his hellish crash three years ago. The star opens up about his life, career and the horrific accident on the show's set in his latest Disney+ documentary Flintoff.

was airlifted to hospital in 2022 after his car flipped over while filming Top Gear at the Dunsford Park Aerodrome. The TV star sustained serious facial injuries and broken ribs, requiring over five hours of surgery as as result.

Speaking in the documentary, Freddie opens up about how he's spoken to Chris and Paddy since the accident - but has lost touch with Paddy.

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"We've been in contact," he says. "So Chris, we saw each other. He got upset. I got a bit upset. It was really nice to see him. I feel bad I haven't been more in contact with him and Paddy. Part of it is for myself a little bit. I hate the word triggering, but I'm worried about that.

"It's also something stopped, I suppose, in some ways, because of what happened to me, their careers have been altered as well. So I feel not guilty, but I feel bad for him, and also I say, what happened gets dragged up enough in my own head without adding to that."

In the film, Freddie explains - and how he remembers everything about it. "I think about it now, back in the car, it were a three wheeler, a reinforcement windscreen and a bar covering half me back. So I'm exposed," he says.

"We’re probably doing about 40 or 45, they were showing me how to get the car going sideways, and the wheel came up at the front."

After being dragged across the tarmac on his face, Freddie admits that . "My biggest fear was I didn't think I'd have a face. I thought my face had come off. I was frightened to death," he says.

Meanwhile, Freddie's surgeon reveals that his case was one of the worst he's ever seen in his medical career. Jahrad Haq shares: "His injuries, over the past 20 years of seeing Maxillofacial trauma, I would probably put in the top five.

"He had a mixture of hard tissue and soft tissue injuries. Broken teeth, lost teeth, elements of the upper jaw bone that were also fractured and displaced. His soft tissue injuries were also complex.

He had lost a really significant portion of his upper lip, the skin and some of the underlying muscle and also his lower lip."

Flintoff is available to stream on Disney+ from Friday 25 April.

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