Former late-night host Jay Leno suffered 3rd-degree burns on his face while working on his 1907 White Steam Car. Gasoline spurted onto his face and hands before an explosion occurred.
Leno issued a statement saying he was ok and just needed a few weeks to recover. In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, the 68-year-old said,
“You have to joke about it. There’s nothing worse than whiny celebrities. If you joke about it, people laugh along with you.”
The comedian dismissed any hand-wringing over the incident.
“But really, it was an accident, that’s all,” he wrote. “Anybody who works with their hands on a regular basis is going to have an accident at some point. If you play football, you get a concussion or a broken leg. Anything you do, there’s a risk factor.”
The former Tonight Show host is staying positive and refusing to let the accident bring him down. He’s setting an example for us all.
“Eight days later, I had a brand new face,” Leno said of the accident, quipping, “And it’s better than what was there before.”
From DailyWire:
Soon after the accident, Leno’s doctor, plastic surgeon Peter Grossman, acknowledged Leno suffered “significant burns to his face and hands” and would need a “surgical excision and grafting procedure,” but added, “He seems to be a gentleman who really doesn’t want to make a big deal of this,” according to Fox News. “He wants to get back to work, that’s what he does. I had to tell him that he needs to step back a bit and that these things take time.”
Leno underwent grafting procedures on both his hands and face at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles. Leno’s accident occurred on November 13; after spending over a week in the hospital he performed November 27 at The Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California.
As he entered the club, Leno joked, “We got two shows tonight: Regular and extra-crispy.”
Leno concluded, “There’s nothing worse than whiny celebrities. If you joke about it, people laugh along with you.”
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Sources: DailyWire, TMZ, FoxNews, The Wall Street Journal
