Jay Leno shared that he fell 60 feet off the side of a hill before a show in Pittsburgh, which left the comedian with a bruised face, swollen eye and a broken wrist.
Jay Leno is on the mend.
The former Tonight Show host is dealing with multiple injuries after falling down the side of a steep hill while on his way to dinner before a recent performance in Pittsburgh.
“I’m a little beat up,” he told Inside Edition. “Fell 60 feet—boom, boom, boom, boom.”
The 74-year-old added that he broke his wrist and “lost my nail on the finger.”
“I am all black and blue from 60 feet of hitting rocks,” noting that one of the rocks “hit me in the eye,” which necessitated Jay wearing an eye patch and left him with a swollen eye.
He told the outlet that he checked out his injuries in the restaurant bathroom, but still made it on stage for his performance and would be checking in with a doctor soon.
Unfortunately for the comedian—who has been married to Mavis Leno since 1980—this is far from the first scary accident he’s experienced in recent years.
In November 2022, Jay sustained burns from a gasoline fire which occurred while he was working on one of his many classic cars.
“The fuel line was clogged so I was underneath it,” he explained on Today a month after the accident. “It sounded clogged and I said, ‘Blow some air through the line.’ And then suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas and then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire.”
He immediately yelled to his friend Dave Killackey, “‘Dave, I’m on fire.’ And Dave was like, ‘OK.’ And I was like, ‘No, Dave, I’m on fire.'”
Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesAs Dave told Today, “I couldn’t even see his face. He downplays it all, but I’m telling you, he was really engulfed. I couldn’t see his face. It was a wall of fire.”
Jay suffered yet another accident in January 2023 when he broke his collarbone, ribs and cracked his kneecaps after getting knocked off his motorcycle.
“I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journalafter the incident, “and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it.”
He continued, “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clothesline me and, boom, knocked me off the bike. The bike kept going, and you know how that works out.”
But Jay isn’t the only person in Hollywood to be the victim of a freak accident. For more, keep reading.
InstagramJamie Lynn Spears‘ daughter, then 8, was driving an ATV when she accidentally flipped it into a pond near their Louisiana home, leaving her submerged under water for minutes. She was hospitalized for several days.
Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty ImagesJimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show host almost lost his finger after he tripped and fell in his own home. He tried catching himself on the counter and his ring got stuck on the way down, pulling his finger out. He described it as “ring avulsion,” and it kept him in the hospital for 10 days to prevent from having to get it amputated.
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for DisneyEllen DeGeneres
The talkshow host had a couple glasses of wine during a dinner party and ended up tripping over the front steps into her home. The result? She had to go to the hospital for dislocating her finger.
Olbaldo Medina/EPA/ShutterstockEnrique Iglesias
In 2015, the singer was performing at the Plaza de Toros de Playa in Tijuana, Mexico, as part of his Sex and Love world tour when a drone used to capture photos hovered near him. He grabbed it and some of his fingers were sliced, leaving him a bloody mess.
Focus/Everett/ShutterstockThe actor suffered a horrible accident while filming The Eagle several years ago. They filmed in Scotland and had to do some scenes in a freezing river, so a crewmember suggested pouring hot water in his wetsuit to help get through it. However, someone accidentally handed him one of the boiling bottles of water that ended up leaving his penis completely burned and skinless. “I’m peeing and my shriveled burnt penis…I was like, ‘Why God?! Why did you do this to me?'” Tatum recalled of the rough time.
Andrew J Cunningham/Getty ImagesTori Spelling
The former 90210 star tripped and fell at the Japanese restaurant Benihana, burning her right arm on one of the Hibachi grills. She ended up suing the restaurant after reportedly undergoing skin grafts from the injury.
SBM/Plux/ShutterstockOrlando Bloom
The actor was paralyzed for four days after he fell from a three-story building when he was 21 years old. He had been climbing a rooftop terrace with friends when the drainpipe he was scaling collapsed. The fall broke several vertebrae in his back.
Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesBrad Pitt
The actor played Achilles in the 2004 film, Troy. Oddly enough, he injured his Achilles tendon on-set, which postponed filming for months.
