Jay Leno is sharing a wellness update with fans pursuing a nasty 60-foot autumn down a elevation successful Pennsylvania that near him heavily bruised and with a breached wrist.
The comedian and erstwhile “Tonight Show” host, 74, was hosting the inaugural amfAR Las Vegas payment event connected Friday, erstwhile helium assured attendees that he’s “feeling good,” People reports.
“I’ve got a breached wrist but I’m each right,” helium told reporters connected the reddish carpet, wherever his facial bruising appeared to beryllium covered with makeup.
Leno made headlines earlier this week erstwhile helium was seen wearing an oculus spot and a brace connected his wrist. While speaking with the media connected Tuesday, helium explained that he’d plummeted down a elevation portion walking to a restaurant extracurricular Pittsburgh past weekend.
“To get to it, I didn’t person a car, truthful you had to locomotion astir a mile and a fractional around,” helium told TMZ of his determination to effort to instrumentality a shortcut down a hill. “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.’”
Leno yet rolled down the incline and deed his caput connected a rock, leaving the near broadside of his look black-and-blue and his oculus swollen shut.
Despite the accident, Leno said helium inactive performed his scheduled drama amusement aboriginal that nighttime and lone went to the infirmary aft returning location to L.A.
“The amusement indispensable spell on,” helium told TMZ.
The injuries helium sustained successful the autumn are conscionable the latest from a string of accidents successful caller years, starting with third-degree burns connected his look from a store fire successful November 2022. He had to walk respective days astatine the Grossman Burn Center where he received tegument grafts.
Just 2 months later, helium revealed that he’d fallen from his motorcycle and breached aggregate bones, including his collarbone and 2 ribs.