‘I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye’
Jay Leno has been forced to wear an eye patch after taking a nasty spill outside a hotel in Southern California.
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Leno, 74, tried to take a shortcut by walking down the hill when he fell.
“I said, ‘Well, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It’s about 60-70 feet. Let me see if I can go down the hill,’” he said. “I fell down. Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye.”
But the Jay Leno’s Garage star was undeterred from performing his planned set at Yaamava’ Resort and Casino, choosing to see a doctor when he got back to Los Angeles afterwards.
“Well, I did the show and then when I came back to L.A. I went to the hospital,” he said. “It’s not that big a deal. It’s all right.”
“I broke my wrist, lost the nail on the finger,” he said.
Leno’s tumble, which also left him with his eye swollen shut, is just the latest in a string of accidents that have befallen the TV personality.
Back in November 2022, Leno underwent surgery for serious burns to his face, hands and chest that he suffered when flames erupted as he worked on a vintage car.
And last year, Leno suffered a number of broken bones after being knocked off a motorcycle.
“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno said. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike. The bike kept going, and you know how that works out.
“At this age, you don’t learn from your mistakes. You just keep doing the same stupid things,” he joked to TMZ about his accident-prone outings.
But Leno has also faced another health issue when he went public earlier this year with the news that his wife of 44 years, Mavis, has advanced dementia.