Jay Leno Reveals He Has a “Brand-New Ear” After Car Fire

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Jay Leno Reveals "Brand-New Face" After Severe Burns

It hasn't been the easiest clip for Jay Leno.

The comedian precocious reflected connected the 2 accidents helium had implicit the people of 2 months. 

"This [is] an all-new face," helium told Dana Carvey and David Spade connected the March 29 occurrence of their podcast Fly connected the Wall. "I did it successful 8 days. I missed 2 shows."

The astir caller mishap was successful January erstwhile Leno got knocked disconnected his motorcycle. "I got a breached collarbone, I got 2 busted ribs, and I got 2 cracked kneecaps," helium recalled, "'cause I got clotheslined connected my motorcycle."

The Tonight Show alum past elaborate what happened.

"You're a 72-year-old feline and an 83-year-old motorcycle. What could spell wrong?" helium joked. "I said, 'Uh oh. It's dripping gas. I don't privation to drawback fire. Lemme crook around.' I crook astir successful a parking batch and the feline had a ligament crossed a parking batch but with nary flag. And the prima was close here. And roar it conscionable deed me."

Leno said helium past had to telephone the doc who helped him aft this archetypal accident.

"It chopped my look again," helium explained. "So I called my look guy. I go, 'Listen, you cognize that face, you gave maine that caller face? I gotta get it fixed.' [He goes], 'What'd you do?' I told him, I drove up determination and helium fixed it again."

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Back successful November, the erstwhile late-night prima suffered burns successful a gasoline occurrence portion moving connected a car successful his Los Angeles garage. As he'd previously recalled to Today's Hoda Kotb, his person Dave Killackey helped smother the occurrence and called 9-1-1. The adjacent day, Leno went to the Grossman Burn Center successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was treated for burns connected his face, thorax and hands. 

"This is simply a brand-new ear," he told Carvey and Spade. "When you get burned successful a fire, ears are similar paper. They're truthful bladed it conscionable goes up."

The Jay Leno's Garage host previously described the attraction to his receptor and look during his interrogation with Kotb. And successful existent Leno fashion, helium maintained a consciousness of wit erstwhile asked if helium had been disquieted astir what helium mightiness look similar aft the gasoline fire.

"When you look similar me, you don't truly interest astir what you look like," helium replied astatine the time. "Look, if I'm George Clooney, that's gonna beryllium a immense problem. They said it would beryllium each right. My cognition is I spot radical who are the champion and bash what they do."

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