Guy Fieri reveals wake-up call after being falsely accused of drunk driving in fatal accident

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Guy Fieri got a huge wake-up call after being wrongly accused in a drunk driving accident when he was a teenager. He revealed that he when he was 19 years old and in college, he was in a "fatality car accident." "I wasn’t driving, I was in the backseat," he said on the "Now What?

With Brooke Shields" podcast. "And unfortunately, I was with a bunch of guys, and the one guy, we were drinking," he continued. "We were screwing off and we actually were down at the drag boat races in Las Vegas." Fieri, then a student at the University of Nevada, said one of the guys saw a police officer.

He had been drinking and decided to drive away. "We got chased, and the car flipped and the guy next to me was killed. It was horrific," Fieri recalled.

According to "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" star, he and others involved in the crash had to be rushed to the hospital by helicopter. "I woke up in the hospital, handcuffed to the gurney, with everybody in that car saying I was the one that was driving," he recalled, noting the other men were in the military together. "They came to the college and arrested me in my dorm room," he added, and according to him, the authorities knew he had not been in the driver's seat.