5 h. ago Flintoff review – so traumatised he can’t even speak to his ex

The story of the former cricket prodigy and car crash survivor Freddie Flintoff is fascinating but this documentary shows he has such extreme PTSD that he keeps slamming the shutters downFreddie Flintoff is numb. As the 98-minute Disney+ documentary Flintoff begins, we find its subject sitting in a hospital room. He can’t feel his lip, the one that was torn from his face in a nightmarish car accident on the Top Gear track in 2022. But more than that, he is mentally checked out. As one doctor after another tells him that he is recovering well and looking good, he stares at the ground dejectedly. He just wants everyone to stop sugarcoating everything and tell him the truth, he says. What he wants to hear is that he looks like “a fucking mess”.Flintoff was designed as the big unveiling of the new, post-accident Freddie Flintoff. His days as a cricketing prodigy are over and so, it seems, are his days as a permanent light entertainment fixture. He is older, slower and more reflective. H...

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49 h. ago Dad's tragic diagnosis after experiencing pain and needing to pee more often

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8 d. ago Sporty student who thought she had flu wakes up to find all four of her limbs amputated

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1 week ago Teenager's desperate bid to save his tragic dad from drowning during Tenerife holiday

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2 w. ago Dad of tragic Scots ecstasy death schoolgirl says failing to dial 999 should be a crime

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3 w. ago Tragic dad who went to hospital 'feeling out of sorts' died five months later

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3 w. ago Kettering fire: Dad's heartbreaking tribute to 'whirlwind' girl, 4, killed in tragic fire

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3 w. ago McFly's Tom Fletcher rushed to hospital after feeling like his face was 'smashed'

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3 w. ago McFly's Tom Fletcher rushed to hospital after feeling like he'd been 'smashed in the face'

Tom Fletcher was rushed to an eye hospital after suffering a nasty flare up

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3 w. ago McFly's Tom Fletcher in hospital dash after health condition flare up left him feeling like he'd been 'smashed'

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3 w. ago Tragic final text from dad to killer son before head was chopped off in despicable act

Chandler Halderson's web of fabricated lies started to unravel and with that followed his unimaginable final act that resulted in the vicious murders of both his parents

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