Jay Leno Sports Black Eye And Battered Face After Scary Fall

 

Jay Leno was seen walking in public wearing an eye patch and stopped to explain that he suffered some injuries after taking a really bad fall.

A video of his bruised face was shared Tuesday by TMZ and Leno took a moment to remove the eye patch to give cameras a close-up of his black eye.

Leno said he “was staying at a hotel that was on a hill,” and there was a restaurant he wanted to go to at the bottom. He “didn’t have a car.”

He said he had to walk “about a mile and a half around.” In the moment he thought, “oh, the hill doesn’t look steep, it’s about 60, 70 feet.”

“And then I fell down … rolled down the hill. Hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye.”

Leno didn’t stop to nurse his wounds after tumbling down the hill because he was focused on maintaining his commitment.

“I did the show and then when I came back to LA, I went to the hospital”. When asked why he didn’t seek immediate medical attention he said, “it was only a couple hours before the show …”

…“there’s 2600 people,” he’d be disappointing if he suddenly canceled his show. His work ethic led him to continue.

Someone in the background shouted, “The show must go on,” and Leno agreed with the statement.
This is just one of many incidents that Leno has overcome. He has also suffered broken bones in a motorcycle crash and third-degree burns in a car fire that erupted in his well-known garage.