Freddie Flintoff reveals horror pics of Top Gear crash injuries for first time after ‘thinking face had been ripped off’
THE full extent of the injuries Freddie Flintoff suffered in his Top Gear crash are laid bare in his new Disney+ documentary.
The show, which drops today (FRI), includes graphic images of the lacerations he suffered to his nose, cheek, lips and chin when he was dragged, face down, around 150ft along the tarmac of Dunsfold Aerodrome in 2022.
Photos apparently taken after he was removed from the Surrey track by air ambulance to St George’s Hospital are likely to shock viewers.
They reveal for the first time the physical impact of the crash which happened when the three-wheeled Morgan supercar overturned and trapped Freddie, 47, underneath the vehicle.
As well as the large cut, which required surgeons to carry out a skin graft, his front teeth were smashed to pieces by the impact and have had to be replaced.
Since the accident he has had to have multiple operations, and have his face “soldered” together with plasma as well as painful steroid injections straight into his scars.
Talking in the documentary he says: “But it’ll never give me what I had back.
“I wasn’t happy with it then but now I realise it wasn’t too bad, was it?
“You just want people to be honest half the time — to say yeah, it is a f***ing mess, isn’t it?”
He added: “I have moments where I forget, I’m just living, and it’s so nice.
“And then you just get a stark reminder, I get a feeling on my face because it’s all tight and it’s different, I’ve got no teeth, or something will fall out of my mouth when I’m eating.
“Or I just look in the mirror and it all comes back.
“You say your face is your identity, but how many times do we hear, like, people say it’s what’s inside that counts, it’s not how you look … b******s! You know what I mean?”
Freddie revealed how he had the choice to turn his head away from the tarmac as the car overturned to prevent him from breaking his neck, but that meant his only other option was to go “face down” as the vehicle continued to slide across the track.