Jay Leno is getting better again.
In a new interview, the former host of “Tonight Show” said that he is getting better after breaking several bones in a motorcycle accident.
It’s so funny you should say that,
Leno said this when a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter asked how he was doing after getting badly burned in a car fire in November 2022.
That was the first accident. OK?
the 72-year-old continued.
Then just last week, I got knocked off my motorcycle. So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.
After the accident on January 17, Leno told the interviewer that he was “OK.” He is even working this weekend.
The host of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” who will return to Sin City in March to perform for the first time since the car fire, said that he was testing a 1940 Indian motorcycle when he smelled gas leaking, which reminded him a lot of the explosion in his garage a few months earlier, so he wanted to stop.
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,
he explained.
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.
Leno decided to keep the crash a secret because of all the attention his hospitalization and recovery in November got from the media.
I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs,
he shared.
I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.
You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free,
he said.
After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down.
Leno was working on one of his cars, a 1907 White Steam car, on November 12. A fuel leak caused gas to get on his hands and face, which caught fire and burned him.
The host of “Jay Leno’s Garage” told an interviewer that he is fine and back to work.
The former late-night host was taken to a burn center right away and treated in a number of ways, including two grafting procedures to remove damaged skin and help it heal and several sessions in a hyperbaric chamber to “reduce swelling” and “increase blood flow with good oxygenation.”
He was in the hospital for 10 days, and soon after getting out, he went back to work.
