Jay Leno is in restoration mode after tumbling down a hill in California over the weekend, leaving him with a big facial bruise, a bandaged wrist, and a watch patch.
In a video obtained by TMZ on Monday (November 19), the Tonight Present alum spoke about his present situation, saying he’s “holding up effective.” He additionally detailed the accident, which got here up because it was laborious to disregard the purple-blue welt from the autumn that coated half of his face, and the attention patch over a part of the welt.
Leno shared that he was staying at a lodge on prime of the hill and fell whereas trying to stroll to a close-by restaurant on the backside. “I used to be staying at a lodge on a hill,” he defined. “I mentioned, ‘The place’s an excellent place to eat?’ ‘Oh, the underside.’ The restaurant was there.”
“To get to it, I didn’t have a automotive, so that you needed to stroll a couple of mile and a half round. I mentioned, ‘Effectively, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It’s about 60–70 ft. Let me see if I can go down the hill,’” Leno defined.
“I fell down. Growth, increase, increase. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me within the eye.”
The 74-year-old shared that he was nonetheless in a position to carry out that night time on the Comedy for Koby occasion in Beverly Hills (the place the surprising video was taken).
After the efficiency, he instantly sought medical consideration in Los Angeles. He defined that his fall occurred “solely a few hours” earlier than the present began.
“It’s not that massive of a deal. It’s alright, it’s alright,” Leno added. The wonderful thing about this age [is] you don’t be taught by your errors, you simply maintain doing the identical silly factor,” he quipped.
The Jay Leno’s Storage star isn’t any stranger to accidents. In November 2022, he was toiling away on one in all his vehicles in his storage when it caught on fireplace, having to spend a number of days within the ICU. In 2023, he advised the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal that he was knocked off his bike and broke a number of bones.
“It’s so humorous you need to say that. That was the primary accident. OK?” he advised the outlet concerning the oddity of the back-to-back accidents. “Then simply final week, I received knocked off my bike. So I’ve received a damaged collarbone. I’ve received two damaged ribs. I’ve received two cracked kneecaps.”