Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he endured the worst pain of his life after a freak car crash in New Hampshire left him hospitalized with serious injuries and strapped in a back brace.
Giuliani and advisor Ted Goodman, also banged up in the wreck, relived the terrifying moment a speeding car plowed into the back of their rented SUV Saturday night — with Giuliani saying he would have been “killed” had he not been wearing his seatbelt.
“We got hit in the back, I would say, the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my whole life, including two accidents I was in when I was a child and playing football,” the two-term mayor, 81, said on “The Rudy Giuliani Show,” Tuesday night.
“It seemed like the car was going maximum speed 70-80 miles an hour, kind of spinned us a teeny bit…instead of getting a whiplash in my neck, I got a whiplash in my body. My body got thrown forward in a second and thrown back and I could feel the pain immediately in the middle of my body.”
Giuliani said he was frozen in agony but managed to look over at Goodman, who was driving, to see if he was okay, noting his confidant was “constricted by the steering wheel.”
“I got terrible injuries but I would have been killed if I didn’t have my seatbelt on,” Giuliani added.
“I would have gone right through the window, so thank God I had the seatbelt on. I felt more pain than maybe I ever felt.”
Goodman recalled his battered boss’s first words were to ask if he was hurt — and then about the other driver, whose wrecked car sat in the median of Interstate-93 following the 10 p.m. accident.
The pair said the bleeding 19-year-old behind the wheel was crying and “very distraught.”
All three were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Giuliani — dubbed “America’s mayor” for leading New York through the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks — suffered fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises to his left arm and lower leg from the crash.
He is now recovering in a back brace that he said is “holding” his fractured spine together.
“I’m feeling like I’m recovering as the doctor predicted,” Giuliani said, adding he’ll be in the brace for the next two weeks whenever he’s sitting up or moving around.
“I think within three or four weeks I’ll be completely recovered.”
Just before the crash, Giuliani said the pair had stopped to help a domestic violence victim in an unrelated matter and call police. They were then struck by the teen driver after merging back onto the highway.
Giuliani was released from the hospital Monday after President Trump announced plans to award his former attorney with the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor.
“That was actually the best medicine, I felt totally better after that,” Giuliani gushed.
“Now, by giving the medicine of a presidential freedom medal, all of the sudden my pain went away.”

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