Freddie Flintoff reveals devastating injury from horror car crash left him with NO teeth

Cricket legend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has revealed that all of his teeth were knocked out during his horrific car crash whilst filming a series of Top Gear in 2022. Flintoff, who has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the crash, made the devastating revelation whilst on stage.

The England cricket icon appeared at the Victoria Palace Theatre on Tuesday night to share the defining moments that shaped his life and career, including the tale of how he once sank 13 pints the night before hitting 142 against South Africa.

Flintoff only mentioned the devastating crash that left him fearing he was dead fleetingly. However, for the first time he revealed in a passing comment that he no longer has any of his own teeth.

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In a Disney+ documentary reflecting on the incident, Flintoff admitted that he thought he was dead after the three-wheeler car he was driving rolled over.

"I thought I was dead, because I was conscious but I couldn't see anything," he explained. "I was thinking, is that it? Is that it? You know what I mean?

"Just black for the rest of my days? My hat came over my eyes - so I pulled my hat up and I thought, no I'm not [dead], I'm on the Top Gear track, this is not heaven."

Surgeon Jahrad Haq, who treated Flintoff, told the documentary the injuries were "very complex" - a mixture of hard and soft tissue injuries, broken teeth, lost teeth and elements of the upper jaw bone that were also fractured and displaced.

Reflecting on the incident, Flintoff has admitted that he remembers everything that happened on that fateful day. "As it started going over, I looked at the ground and I knew, if I get hit here on the side [of the head] then I'll break my neck, or if I get hit on the temple I'm dead," he explains in the documentary.

"The best chance is to go face down. And then I remember hitting [the ground] and my head got hit.

"But then I got dragged out, and the car went over, and I went over the back of the car, and then [I got] pulled face down on the runway about 50m underneath the car. And then I hit the grass and then [it] flipped back."

While Flintoff admitted that he thought life would be easier had he died in the crash, the England legend insisted that he never held suicidal thoughts following the incident and that cricket has helped him. "This sounds awful. Part of me wishes I'd been killed," Flintoff concluded.

"Part of me thinks I wish I'd died. I didn't want to kill myself.

"I don't want to mistake the two things. I was not wishing, but thinking, this would have been so much easier... Now I try to take the attitude, you know what, the sun will come up tomorrow, and then my kids will still give me a hug, and I'm probably in a better place now."

Since recovering from the crash, Flintoff has returned to cricket helping to coach the Northern Superchargers in The Hundred and the England Lions - the development squad underneath the first-team. "When Andrew needed it most, cricket was there for him," Flintoff's wife Rachael explained.

"It sounds a bit weird saying it, a bit over the top to say, but I do think cricket saved him. It gave him a reason for being, again."

Following the crash in 2022, Top Gear was 'rested' by the BBC in 2023 and has not returned to our screens since. Flintoff has been back on TV in the popular documentary series Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams and he has also hosted a rebooted version of the darts game show Bullseye.