(NewsNation) — Celebrity chef Guy Fieri was rushed to emergency surgery after suffering a major injury filming one of his Food Network shows.

Fieri told Fox News Digital he missed a set of stairs, causing him to tear his quad muscle.

“(I) slipped down a set of steps and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold. So, you know, it extended me out,” he said. “I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself the giveaway point and the doctor said he’s never seen — you know, in 20 years — he hasn’t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half. Yeah, it sucked.”

Guy Fieri was filming new Food Network show

Fieri was filming his new show, “Flavor Town Food Fight,” when the accident occurred.

The television host told Fox News Digital he was rushed into surgery so his muscles wouldn’t recede.

“You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone, but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle, and it exploded,” Fieri said.

Fieri will be off his feet for about eight weeks, having to get around via crutches and a wheelchair. The on-set injury has also impacted his Thanksgiving plans.

“Oh, it’s going to affect it because I’m on crutches and in a wheelchair. I mean, I have to stay off it and the whole thing. I can’t walk on it for eight weeks. So it was funny. My son, Ryder, texted me from school and he said, ‘Well, I guess all the training you’ve given me and all the cooking I’ve been doing while I was at school, it was going to be my time to shine.’ And I said, ‘I am so happy you’re asking me about this versus me telling you, you have to do it,'” Fieri told the outlet.