Jay Leno Steps Out in Los Angeles with Bruised Face, Broken Wrist After Rolling 60 Ft. Down a Hill

Jay Leno is still recovering from a 60-foot fall. down the hill.

On Thursday, November 21, the former Tonight’s show the host went out for lunch in Los Angeles and was photographed with visible facial injuries. The 74-year-old was staying at a hotel outside Pittsburgh before an evening show on Saturday when the accident happened.

The hotel was on top of a hill, and he fell while trying to get to a nearby restaurant. “To get to it, I didn’t have a car, so you had to walk about a mile and a half around. I said, ‘Well, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It is about 60-70 feet. To see if I can go down the hill,’ he recalled.

“I fell. Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, hit me in the eye,” he told TMZ.

Leno later told Inside Edition that he broke his wrist, lost a fingernail and was bruised all over the left side of his body. He also wore an eyepatch and showed that his eye was swollen shut and his face was black and blue from the fall.

Jay Leno Says He Suffered ‘Serious’ Burns After Being Involved In Gasoline Fire: ‘I’m Fine’

Jay Leno.

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The comedian said he still finished his performance at the Yaamava’ Casino in Southern California a few hours later, and was waiting to return to Los Angeles to seek medical attention.

“A great thing in this day and age [is] you don’t learn from your mistakes, you just keep doing the same stupid thing,” he joked, referring to his burn accident in 2022.

Jay Leno.

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In November 2022, Leno was working on a steam engine under a car in his garage when a gasoline fire broke out. He was admitted to the Grossman Burn Center after suffering second- and third-degree burns to his face, chest and arms in the flames.

He underwent a series of surgical procedures for excision and grafting of the burns and was discharged from the renowned institution after 10 days.

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