Jay Leno recovering after 60-foot fall, hitting head on a rock

Jay Leno is recovering aft falling down a hill, hitting his caput connected a stone and breaking his wrist, among sustaining different injuries.

The erstwhile “Tonight Show” funnyman told TMZ connected Tuesday helium was staying astatine a edifice located astatine the apical of a elevation extracurricular Pittsburgh and fell portion walking down to a edifice connected Saturday.

“To get to it, I didn’t person a car, truthful you had to locomotion astir a mile and a fractional around,” helium told the outlet. “I said, ‘Well, the elevation doesn’t look that steep. It’s astir 60–70 feet. Let maine spot if I tin spell down the hill.'”

Unfortunately, Leno’s effort didn’t spell well, arsenic helium rolled down the elevation and deed his caput connected a rock, which “knocked [him] successful the eye.”

In a video posted Tuesday by Inside Edition, the comedian tin beryllium seen wearing an spot implicit his oculus with the near broadside of his look heavy bruised and swollen. He’s besides seen with bruises connected his close manus and a brace connected his breached wrist.

Despite the accident, Leno said that helium inactive performed astatine his scheduled amusement Saturday nighttime and lone went to the infirmary aft returning to Los Angeles.

“The amusement indispensable spell on,” helium told TMZ. “The large happening astir this property is you don’t larn from your mistakes truthful you support doing the aforesaid anserine thing.”

Leno has been injured aggregate times successful caller years. He suffered third-degree burns successful a store fire portion moving connected 1 of his vintage cars successful November 2022. He said his look caught occurrence and helium had to walk respective days astatine the Grossman Burn Center wherever helium received tegument grafts.

In January 2023, helium told the Las Vegas Review-Journal helium broke his collarbone, 2 ribs and some kneecaps aft falling disconnected his motorcycle.