Jay Leno feels ‘very lucky’ despite burn accident, challenges with wife’s dementia battle
nypost.comgiving him third-degree burns on his face and sending him to the ICU. But when asked if he was ever nervous about returning to his garage, he responded with a resounding, “No!”“I got burned in a fire.
I got a face full of gas. A spark jumped. [It’s] not like, ‘How did this happen?’ I mean, people get burned every day,” he told Fox News Digital, joking that people reacted more strongly because he’s a celebrity.
Leno noted he “was out in eight and a half days” from the hospital and “I missed two days’ work. So it wasn’t bad. It was that is better than the broken leg, believe me.”He needed multiple skin grafts for his facial injuries, and just two months later, he broke his leg in a motorcycle accident.“I was on my motorcycle, and the guy had to wire across a driveway but with no flag on it.
And I turned, and the sun was in my eyes. And so it tore my face across,” the 74-year-old said.He joked that he “had to call my face guy and go, ‘Listen, remember that new face you gave me?
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