Jay Leno Says He Suffered ‘Serious’ Burns After Being Alive to in Fuel Fire: ‘I Am OK’
Jay Leno is speaking out after enduring a “serious medical emergency.”
In a statement shared with PEOPLE on Monday, Leno, 72, confirmed that he’s recovering after acquiring “serious burns” in a current fire.
“I got some serious burns from a fuel fire,” he said in a statement. “I’m enough. Correct need per week or two to assemble aid on my toes.”
Per a press free up from the Burbank Fire Division, which modified into obtained by PEOPLE, the incident came about on Saturday round 12: 30 p.m. BFD officers said they arrived on scene, the place apart they “assessed and treated one adult male affected person” sooner than transporting him to “a neighborhood emergency division.”
Aimee Bennett, a spokesperson on the Grossman Burn Heart, also issued a statement to PEOPLE, confirming that Leno modified into being treated there after the incident in his storage.
“Jay needs everyone to know that he is in loyal condition and receiving remedy … for burns that he obtained to his face and hands from a fuel accident in his storage over the weekend,” Bennett said. “He’s in factual humor and is touched by the total inquiries into his condition and well wants. [He] needs to let everyone know he is doing well and is in ‘the most easy burn heart in the USA.'”
Even though it restful stays unclear what precisely came about, Leno’s employee, George Swift, informed Get right of entry to Hollywood that Leno modified into sprayed by fuel that caught fire while engaged on a steam car.
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PEOPLE previously reported that Leno had canceled a current look for The Monetary Mark Dialogue board 2022 in Las Vegas on Sunday. Per the match’s news blast despatched to subscribers thru email, it modified into confirmed that comedian Frank Caliendo would exhaust his plight.
“His family modified into no longer ready to present us very many indispensable aspects, however there modified into a extraordinarily serious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling,” the email said. “All all of us know is that he is alive, so our prayers exit to him and his family tonight.”
A spokesperson at Flappers in Burbank also informed PEOPLE that Leno canceled his scheduled expose on Saturday evening, factual hours after the incident.
Leno confronted well being points in the previous. Most lately, he spread out about his excessive cholesterol diagnosis in a 2019 video.
“We in actuality favor other folks to appear the connection, because a host of different folks don’t realize excessive cholesterol — and while you might maybe maybe maybe have had a heart assault or stroke, you might maybe be rising your possibility for one other one,” he said on the time. “It’s like an earthquake, it might maybe maybe maybe maybe no longer murder the home, nonetheless it absolutely weakens the structure.”
Leno continued, “There might maybe be a host of different folks strolling round like that, they’re factual time bombs. That you just might maybe maybe have got all this cholesterol, you don’t comprehend it until it truly hits, you understand? It’s like in a car, if even one share of dirt gets in the peep of the needle of the jet, and development and no more fuel comes thru. And that’s what occurs with your heart.”
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So that you just might maybe maybe alter the well being topic, the dilapidated Tonight Existing host modified into taking remedy as well because the utilize of a portable EKG scheme to observe the guts’s rhythm and detect irregular heartbeats. He modified into also working to abstain from alcohol and cigarettes.
Before that, Leno modified into hospitalized in 2009 with an undisclosed illness. He later confirmed to PEOPLE that he sought remedy for exhaustion.
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“That’s like a prosperous person’s condition. Wretched other folks that work — they assign no longer collect exhausted. Most effective prosperous other folks collect exhausted. It’s an embarrassing part,” he said.
“I deem I factual potentially got extinct out,” he continued. “I enact three columns. I write for the London Sunday Instances, I write for Standard Mechanics every month and I write for a British magazine called Octane. I enact all automobile stuff. After which I’m on the road [doing standup comedy] 160 days. I deem or no longer it’s a mode of affords the place apart you factual kinda factual got extinct out.”
