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Jay Leno Injured Again successful Motorcycle Accident 2 Months After Burns
Jay Leno has travel retired of a calamity with a transformation.
The comedian, who sustained burns to his face, arms and hands successful a gasoline fire back successful November, made a post-hospitalization quality connected the March 1 occurrence of The Kelly Clarkson Show, wherever helium showed disconnected however good his look has healed.
"This is simply a marque caller face," Jay declared to big Kelly Clarkson. "It is. It's unbelievable."
Reflecting connected the scary incident, which occurred arsenic Jay was moving connected 1 of his collectible cars, the comedian told the communicative with immoderate fictitious details thrown in.
"I was moving connected a car and I got a look afloat of gasoline and it caught fire," helium explained, earlier joking, "I had been eating a Flamin' Hot Dorito and erstwhile I spot into it, it acceptable my look connected fire."
In a much superior fashion, Jay noted the "pretty bad" mishap gave him 3rd grade burns. Now with healed skin, Jay quipped of the unthinkable transformation, portion pointing astatine his chin, "You'd deliberation there'd beryllium a zipper present oregon thing but no."
The comedian added, "Only for the 2nd clip successful my vocation americium I the caller look of comedy. I got it erstwhile successful the '80s and present I get it again."
As for what truly went down astatine the clip of his accident? Well, determination were no Doritos involved.
"It was a 1907 White Steam Car," Leno told Hoda Kotb in a Dec. 14 interview for Today. "The substance enactment was clogged, truthful I was underneath it. It sounded clogged and I said, 'Blow immoderate aerial done the line,' and truthful helium did."
"And suddenly, boom, I got a look afloat of gas," Leno continued. "And past the aviator airy jumped and my look caught connected fire."
Thankfully, Jay's bully person Dave Killackey was determination to instrumentality speedy life-saving action.
"I said to my friend, I said, 'Dave, I'm connected fire,'" Jay recalled. "And Dave's like, 'All right.' I said, 'No, Dave, I'm connected fire.' And then, 'Oh, my god.' Dave, my friend, pulled maine retired and jumped connected apical of maine and benignant of smothered the fire."
Following the traumatic occurrence, Jay—who drove himself location aft the incident—was aboriginal admitted to Grossman Burn Center successful Los Angeles. There, helium spent 10 days nether their attraction earlier being released into the clinic's outpatient facility.
Not lone did Jay person a person by his broadside during the accident, but helium was besides visited astatine the hospital by Tim Allen. At the time, Tim shared that Jay's bully spirits were successful tact portion connected the mend.
"He's feeling better," Tim said successful footage obtained by TMZ. "We did immoderate jokes, which is what we do. We commiserated."
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