Freddie Flintoff breaks silence on Top Gear horror crash which left him 'crying every two minutes'

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has spoken for the first time about his Top Gear crash, sharing the 'anxiety, nightmares and flashbacks' it caused.

The cricketer suffered serious injuries when he crashed at the Dunsfold Park Aerodrome while filming the BBC show in December 2022. He opted not to show how serious his facial injuries were following the incident and stepped back from public life while he recovered.

The BBC apologised to Freddie over the injuries in March 2023 and he reached a settlement with the BBC last year, reportedly worth £9m. Now, speaking about the incident for the first time, the 46-year-old revealed he was "crying every two minutes", and only left his home for medical appointments in the seven months following the crash, which caused facial and rib injuries.

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His comments came in a new BBC documentary, called Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour, which sees the star take a group of young people from his home town of Preston on a cricketing tour of India.

Speaking in the documentary shortly after his crash, Freddie said: "I don’t want to sit and feel sorry for myself, I don’t want sympathy, but it’s going from being here for seven months, to going to India. I’m struggling with my anxiety, I have nightmares, I have flashbacks, it’s been so hard to cope. But I’m thinking if I don’t do something, I’ll never go. I’ve got to get on with it."

Following the incident, the BBC announced it had “rested” Top Gear for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, Freddie has made a steady return to the public eye since, re-joining England’s backroom staff for their T20 series against the West Indies earlier this