Buddy Valastro feared he 'wouldn't be the same person' after gruesome injury ...

Buddy Valastro feared he 'wouldn't be the same person' after gruesome injury ...
Buddy Valastro feared he 'wouldn't be the same person' after gruesome injury ...

Just a year ago, Buddy Valastro didn't know if life as he knew it was over following a freak accident that nearly cost the all-star baker the use of his right hand. 

The 44-year-old Jersey boy joined DailyMailTV for a sweet interview about his latest venture, Buddy V's Cake Slice, which will make getting dessert at your door a piece of cake and revealed that his is '95% recovered.' 

Buddy said that his lowest point came in the immediate aftermath of the incident when he was lying in the hospital bed scared that he would lose himself if he couldn't bake anymore. 'I wouldn't be the same person,' he admitted.

How sweet it is: Buddy Valastro joined DailyMailTV for a sweet interview about his latest venture, Buddy V's Cake Slice, and revealed that his is '95% recovered' following gruesome hand injury

How sweet it is: Buddy Valastro joined DailyMailTV for a sweet interview about his latest venture, Buddy V's Cake Slice, and revealed that his is '95% recovered' following gruesome hand injury

'I'd say I'm probably about 95% of the way,' Buddy explained of his recovery. 'You know, I got about 90% of my strength back, I got all my movement and dexterity. I just have a little problem moving my fingers.'

The celebrity chef showed off his healed hand to DailyMailTV which looked nearly perfect, however, his index finger appeared slightly separated from the rest of his fingers. Valastro explained that after five surgeries, he could be going under the knife one more time to correct the issue.

'Listen, if this is as good as it's going to get, I'm happy,' he added, gratefully.

In September 2020, Buddy impaled his right hand in a freak accident with the pin mechanism of his at-home bowling alley machine and suffered severe tendon and nerve damage.

'I'd say I'm probably about 95% of the way,' Buddy explained of his recovery. 'You know, I got about 90% of my strength back, I got all my movement and dexterity. I just have a little problem moving my fingers.'

'I'd say I'm probably about 95% of the way,' Buddy explained of his recovery. 'You know, I got about 90% of my strength back, I got all my movement and dexterity. I just have a little problem moving my fingers.'

Terrifying: In September 2020, Buddy impaled his right hand in a freak accident with the pin mechanism of his at-home bowling alley machine and suffered severe tendon and nerve damage

Terrifying: In September 2020, Buddy impaled his right hand in a freak accident with the pin mechanism of his at-home bowling alley machine and suffered severe tendon and nerve damage

'The hardest part was probably, you know, laying in that hospital thinking if I'm ever going to be the same,' Buddy recalled. 'It wasn't like I got a scratch or broken a finger. I mean, I had a huge metal stake that was through my hand - and then it rolled and crushed my whole thumb.'

'My whole hand was like destroyed,' he continued. 'Look, I always knew that I would be able to work. And, I still had my mind and I still had everything else that was working but those cakes and that level of detail ... I really didn't know what was going to be. 

'That's like taking something away from me,' he said, adding that baking his show-stopping cakes is 'part of my DNA.'

'If that part of me was taken away, I wouldn't be the same person,' Buddy admitted.

'The hardest part was probably. you know, laying in that hospital thinking if I'm ever going to be the same,' Buddy recalled. 'It wasn't like I got a scratch or broken a finger. I mean, I had a huge metal stake that was through my hand - and then it rolled and crushed my whole thumb.'

'The hardest part was probably. you know, laying in that hospital thinking if I'm ever going to be the same,' Buddy recalled. 'It wasn't like I got a scratch or broken a finger. I mean, I had a huge metal stake that was through my hand - and then it rolled and crushed my whole thumb.'

'That's like taking something away from me,' he said, adding that baking his show-stopping cakes is 'part of my DNA. If that part of me was taken away, I wouldn't be the same person.'

'That's like taking something away from me,' he said, adding that baking his show-stopping cakes is 'part of my DNA. If that part of me was taken away, I wouldn't be the same person.'

In just 12 months, Buddy went from a hand that was nearly destroyed to being back a the top of his game winning the third season of Food Network's Buddy vs. Duff with a monstrous Godzilla cake. 

'It was so much fun to compete again,' he gushed over his team's big win. 'But I got to say, for me,

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