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Jay Leno Reportedly Hospitalized After Suffering Burns
Jay Leno is connected the mend.
The former Tonight Show host said helium is recovering aft precocious being burned successful a fire.
"I got immoderate superior burns from a gasoline fire," Jay said successful a Nov. 14 connection to Variety. "I americium ok. Just request a week oregon 2 to get backmost connected my feet."
The Grossman Burn Center successful Los Angeles besides issued a connection astir his information connected Nov. 14.
"Jay Leno is successful unchangeable condition," the connection read, per KTLA, "and he's receiving attraction present astatine the pain halfway to his look and his hands from a gasoline mishap successful his store implicit the weekend."
Per an email obtained by People that was sent to Forum 2022 attendees from The Financial Brand, Jay's injuries led him to person to pull retired of a Nov. 13 performance astatine the Forum 2022 league successful Las Vegas, Nev.
"His household was not capable to supply america precise galore details, but determination was a precise superior aesculapian exigency that is preventing Jay from traveling," the email read, per the outlet. "All we cognize is that helium is alive, truthful our prayers spell retired to him and his household tonight."
It's not the archetypal clip Jay has been unfastened astir his wellness challenges. Back successful 2019, the comedian, who was diagnosed with precocious humor cholesterin and a blockage successful his heart, spoke astir the value of caring for yourself by having regular visits with a doc and maintaining a steadfast diet.
"A batch of radical don't recognize precocious cholesterol, and if you've had a bosom onslaught oregon stroke, you're expanding your hazard for different one," Jay told People astatine the time. "It's similar an earthquake, it mightiness not destruct the house, but it surely weakens the structure."
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At the time, Jay compared cholesterin to automobiles—something helium knows good arsenic the big of Jay Leno's Garage.
"It's similar successful a car, if adjacent 1 portion of ungraded gets successful the oculus of the needle of the jet, and roar and nary much state comes through," helium said. "And that's what happens with your heart."
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