Rachael Ray reveals NYC horror stories — including fighting off teen mugger, biting ex’s thumb and throwing ‘his s–t’ out of window

She will make a imply sauce — and fights off muggers and jealous boyfriends, far too.

Before she was renowned, Rachael Ray was mugged — 2 times — by a teenage boy outside the house her Woodside, Queens, condominium.

“He has literally a Glock in his hand and sticks it in my back again, and I scream so loud. I feel they listened to it in Jersey … I freaked the flip out, and I believe I worried him far more than he afraid me,” she dished to The Submit right after the premiere of her new A&E demonstrate, “Rachael Ray’s Meals in Minutes.”

“I sprayed him in the facial area with Mace and he was not delighted. I still come to feel seriously bad about it in fact. I don’t believe that little one would have hurt me.”

At the time, Ray, now 55, was doing the job at Agata and Valentina, an Italian gourmand market on the Higher East Facet.

The night she was mugged, she left do the job all-around 11 p.m., and then headed to her roach-infested Queens walk-up.

“There were roaches in my condominium, but I stayed mainly because I was so anxious about the canine that lived there,” she claimed.

Ray was apprehensive about the super’s dog, Liza, who was stored chained in the laundry area.

She generally brought food to the pup, who may well have saved her existence when the mugger returned a handful of times later.

“The child came again to mug me a second time since he was pissed,” Ray discussed through Zoom from her condominium in the East Village.

“He pushed me down this small alleyway, and Liza operates down the hall at him and she afraid him absent. He was petrified of the pet.”

Ray also experienced to duke it out with her jealous Brazilian boyfriend all over this time.

“He was pretty sweet, incredibly kind, incredibly humorous, magnificent … just not an bold fella. He favored weed and the couch,” she mentioned. “I basically opened the window and threw his s–t in the road. I just received so fed up.”

But he returned, enraged that one more gentleman experienced walked Ray household.

“I listen to what I consider is thunder. It was not thunder. He was pulling down the fire escape and crawling up the facet of the constructing and he jumps via the window of my residing place.

“We had a true ruckus . . . I little bit his thumb and the blood went all above. It was poor. I felt actually awful about it because I genuinely cherished him quite substantially.”

There is no negative blood with her ex, reported Ray, who has been married to lawyer and musician John Cusimano since 2005.

“He nevertheless texts me to this day,” she stated of her previous flame. “He sends me occasional videos of whales and young children enjoying and scenes from Brazil, which is quite sweet. He asks about my mom and my brother and my sister. And I generally just react politely.”

Following the boyfriend drama and the muggings, Ray hightailed it out of NYC and moved back to her indigenous Glens Falls in upstate New York. 

“I acquired a employed Ford Ranger . . . pickup truck. I experienced to find out how to travel. . . . I begun my everyday living all more than once again, and I worked any place they would enable me,” she recalled.

At 1 of her work opportunities, a specialty foodstuff industry in Albany referred to as Cowan & Lobel, Ray began educating her “30-Minute Meals” — the relaxation is food historical past.

The Emmy winner hosted her daytime chat display “Rachael Ray” from 2006 to 2023 and gushed above her celebrity company — a lot of of which had been in fact excellent cooks “that acquired their palms dirty.”

“Oh, so many, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson . . . really superb cooks . . . President Clinton, John McCain, extraordinary, individuals that, I was explained to and instructed by the folks that depict some of these individuals, ‘They’re not likely to do this. They won’t do that.’ Yes they do,” she stated.

“I mean Gwyneth was having out of the pan with her hand.”