Jay Leno steps out in Los Angeles with bruised face, broken wrist after rolling 60ft. down a hill

On November 16, the comedian was injured after hitting his head on a rock at the bottom of a hill

Jay Leno is still recovering after drops 60 feet. down a hill.

On Thursday 21 November, the former The Tonight Show the host stepped out for lunch in Los Angeles and was photographed with visible facial injuries. The 74-year-old was staying at a hotel outside Pittsburgh before an evening show on Saturday when the accident happened.

The hotel was on top of a hill and he fell while trying to walk to a nearby restaurant. “To get there, I didn’t have a car, so you had to walk about a kilometer and a half around. I said, ‘Well, the hill doesn’t look that steep. It is about 60-70 feet. Let me see if I can go down the hill,’” he recalled.

“I fell down. Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, poked my eye,” he said TMZ.

Leno later recounted Interior version that he broke his wrist, lost one of the nails on his finger and the entire left side of his body is bruised. He also wore an eye patch and showed that his eye was swollen shut with his face black and blue from the fall.

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The comedian said he still completed his show at the Yaamava’ Casino in Southern California a few hours later and waited until he was back in Los Angeles to seek medical attention.

“The great thing about this age (is) you don’t learn from your mistakes, you just keep doing the same stupid thing,” he said, referring to his fire accident in 2022.

In November 2022, Leno was working on a steam engine under a car in his garage when a gasoline fire broke out. He was admitted to the Grossman Burn Center after suffering second and third degree burns on his face, chest and hands in the flame.

He went through a series surgical excision and grafting procedures for his burns and was discharged from the famous facility after a 10-day stay.