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Jay Leno is on the mend once more!
In an interview with the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal revealed Thursday, the comic, 72, revealed that he’s recovering from a latest motorbike accident that left him with a number of damaged bones, solely months after he sustained second-degree burns in a fireplace that broke out within the storage of his Los Angeles residence.
Detailing that he “bought knocked off” his motorbike on Jan. 17, Leno informed the outlet, “I’ve bought a damaged collarbone. I’ve bought two damaged ribs. I’ve bought two cracked kneecaps.”
“However I am okay!” the star — who’s returning to Las Vegas in March — added. “I am okay, I am working. I am working this weekend.”
A consultant for Leno didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.
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In line with Leno, he was on the street testing a classic 1940 Indian motorbike when he observed the scent of leaking gasoline and determined to drag over to research.
“So I turned down a aspect road and minimize via a parking zone, and unbeknownst to me, some man had a wire strung throughout the parking zone however with no flag hanging from it,” he defined to the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal. “So, you already know, I did not see it till it was too late. It simply clothesline me and, increase, knocked me off the bike. The bike stored going, and you know the way that works out.”
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The previous Tonight Present host informed the outlet that he did not make his accident public data at first as a result of there was a lot chaos and protection from his prior November incident.
“You recognize, after getting burned up, you get that one free of charge,” he stated, then joking: “After that, you are Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You simply need to preserve your head down.”
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Again in November, Leno and his longtime good friend, Dave Killackey, had been engaged on a clogged gas line within the undercarriage of a 1907 White Steam Automobile parked within the TV host’s 140,000-square-foot Burbank storage when he sustained extreme second-degree burns throughout his face and higher physique.
Inside minutes, paramedics arrived, and by the subsequent day, Leno had checked into The Grossman Heart, the place he was handled for burns throughout his face, neck, chest, palms and left arm.
Over 9 days, Leno — whose spouse of 42 years, Mavis, slept beside him at The Heart — underwent two pores and skin grafting surgical procedures (one with human cadaver pores and skin and one other with pig gut) to assist regenerate new wholesome pores and skin, in addition to periods in hyperbaric chambers to assist oxygenate tissue. Inside six days after he left the Heart, Leno was again onstage, performing standup on the Comedy & Magic Membership in Hermosa Seaside, California.
In an unique chat with PEOPLE a month after the accident, Leno described the ordeal intimately, stating, “It felt precisely like my face was on fireplace. Possibly like essentially the most intense sunburn you have ever had, that’d be truthful to say.”
As he continued to heal, Leno stated he was conscious that his state of affairs might have been a lot worse. “I understand how unhealthy it might have been,” he defined. “However I am okay. And I am positive I will proceed to do the identical silly issues I’ve at all times finished. Simply possibly a bit bit extra rigorously!”
