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What occurs when you will have a basic automobile and a component will get broken? You get a alternative, similar to Jay Leno did following the November 2022 automobile fireplace that left him with “serious” third-degree burns on his face and head. “This is a brand-new ear,” Jay, 72, informed Dana Carvey and David Spade on the Mar. 29 episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast. “When you get burned in a fire, ears are like paper. They’re so thin it just goes up.”
Jay additionally spoke in regards to the January accident when he received knocked off his motorbike after driving right into a wire that somebody hung throughout quite a bit and not using a warning flag/marker. “I got a broken collarbone, I got two busted ribs, and I got two cracked kneecaps ’cause I got clotheslined on my motorcycle,” he informed the comedy friends. Jay joked he was “a 72-year-old guy and an 83-year-old motorcycle. What could go wrong?”
Actually, it was the November accident that resulted in Jay’s newest journey to the hospital. While driving the basic motorbike, he seen it was dripping gasoline. “I said, ‘… I don’t want to catch fire. Lemme turn around.’ I turned around in a parking lot, and the guy had a wire across a parking lot but with no flag. And the sun was right here. And boom, it just hit me. It cut my face again. So I called my face guy. I go, ‘Listen, you know that face, you gave me that new face? I gotta get it fixed.’ [He goes], ‘What’d you do?’ I told him I drove up there, and he fixed it again.”
Jay was coping with a clogged gasoline line on his 1907 White Steam Car when a leak resulted within the former Tonight Show host being sprayed with gasoline on his fingers and face. “When you work with cars, you have a lot of accidents. But this is bigger than most,” he mentioned in a December interview. “With a steam car, you have gasoline, but you also have a vaporizer which is heated by a pilot light to turn water into steam.”
While beneath the automobile, Jay received a face stuffed with gasoline and was too near the automobile’s pilot gentle. The gasoline reacted with the spark, shortly engulfing him in flames. “It felt exactly like my face was on fire. Maybe like the most intense sunburn you’ve ever had, that’d be fair to say,” he defined. “I was under the car maybe 10 seconds before [Jay’s friend, Dave Killackey] pulled me out. Any longer than that, I could have lost my eye. I’m not a panicky guy, but I knew if I breathed in, I could scorch my lungs.”
Jay was discharged from the hospital on Nov. 20, 2022. A day later, he was noticed roaming round city in a classic blue Cadillac. His face and fingers nonetheless bore harm from the incident, however he gave the impression to be in nice spirits. Two weeks after the incident, he was performing on the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.