Guy Fieri Says He Spoke to His Late Dad Through a Medium 2 Days After He Died: 'That Helped'

Guy Fieri had a spiritual communication with his father just days after his death.

The Food Network star opened up about her father Jim, who died in January at the age of 81, through the media. During the interview at In Depth with Graham BensingerFieri became emotional talking about his grief in the days afterward.

“It screwed me over… for a few days, ‘I don’t want to talk to anybody. I don’t want to see anyone, just leave me alone,’ he said.

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Soon after, Fieri says his friend, who “ironically enough” is a spirit medium, felt prompted to reach out to Fieri. He remembers her telling him, “Your dad blows me up… Your dad gets me because of you. He just wants you to know that he is…”

The Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives star was delighted with the media’s personal knowledge of their relationship.

“And she began to show me things that no one else in the world could [would] know what’s going on. I mean, what I’m telling you is a city that gives chills,” he explained to host Graham Bensinger.

One of the most unusual parts of the media communication is that it happened just two days after Jim’s death.

“So she says, ‘And they don’t come to me like this. It’s usually five or six days.’ This was like day two,” Fieri recounted her words. “So she said, ‘He’s really hell bent on getting in touch with you.’ So that helped.”

Fieri credits his friend for handling his grief with care. His experience with the medium and the spirit world also changed his perspective on funeral arrangements.

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“It’s not full of sr—. I mean, I pretty much trust Karen. All the things I said I wouldn’t do: I wasn’t going to go to the cremation and take him there. I didn’t mean to do that. I just said, ‘I don’t want to be a part of this.’ Something changed, took a completely different thing… I surprised myself how I dealt with it,” he explained.

He added: “And not that I didn’t poke my eyes out, and not that I don’t regret it, not all of that.” It was just a different thing.”

While discussing his father’s death, Guy’s Grocery Games The host also talked about how he takes care of his mom since his dad’s death.

Guy Fieri and his family.

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“The funny thing is, out of everything that’s happened, it’s probably brought me 10 times closer to my mom,” he said. “Not that my mom and I weren’t always very close, but we were close… in that our personalities are so similar that it was a bit… it’s like when you’re too close to a person with whom you can almost be little smartass together .”

His mother, Penny, was married to Jim for more than five decades. They also lost their daughter Morgan – Fieri’s sister – in 2011 after she died of metastatic melanoma.

“But it was just this, like I never had to talk to my mom about things as much as I talked to him about things. Since this happened, my mom and I have become super close,” Fieri said. “I couldn’t be more proud of my mom. I mean what a warrior. She was married to that guy for 56 years and then she left.”

In June, Fieri shared that he was experiencing his first Father’s Day without his dad, posting a heartfelt tribute on Instagram.

“I hope everyone has a great Father’s Day. Right now I’m with Hunter and Ryder and family and a bunch of our friends getting together,” Guy said. “Bit of a rough day for me, first Father’s Day without my dad Jim, but even when you have a rough day, let little miracles happen in the world.”

Guy Fieri interview with Graham Bensinger.

In Depth with Graham Bensinger

In a PEOPLE 2022 cover story, Fieri opened up about his father’s pancreatic cancer story. At the time, Jim was celebrating his 80th birthday and had been cancer free for five years.

“He was a great advocate for people who had gone through it,” he said. “Because there’s not a lot of knowledge about it. It’s not a huge success rate. But I think you have to live every day. That’s the biggest thing, you never know what tomorrow will bring.”

“Family always comes first,” he added at the time.

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