Jay Leno, the garage expert, did not slowly describe Accident that put him in intensive care.
“And suddenly, boom, my face was filled with gas,” Leno said. Then the pilot lights went on and my face caught on fire.”
In a TV show interview on NBC’s “Today” show, the comedian looked a little ugly in his clothes, and now he’s back on stage with a backstage pose. nine days at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles. He suffered burns last month when he and his friend Dave Killackey were working on one of Leno’s classic cars, a 1907 white car.
Describing the crash, Leno said he asked Killackey to blow some air through the clogged fuel line, as gasoline spewed out and the pilot flame ignited it.
Killackey, who joined Leno in the interview, said: “I couldn’t even see his face. “He brought it all down, but I tell you, he was really engulfed. It was a wall of fire right in front of me.”
Killackey immediately pulled his friend out of the car. “I just grabbed him,” he said. “I grabbed his head, and I pulled his head into my chest.” He pointed Leno toward the bathroom to splash cold water on his face while putting out a car fire and calling 911.
To his surprise, Leno then drove himself home to notify his wife, Mavis, who took him to the hospital. He suffered burns to his face, chest and hands. He spent eight hours a day isolated in a super pressurized chamber, where pure oxygen helped with healing.
When asked if he was worried he’d ruined his good looks, Leno said: “When you look like me, you don’t really worry about how you look…if I If it were George Clooney it would be a big deal, but they said it would be fine, so my attitude is that I trust the best people to do what they do.”
When it aired, Leno said of her challenge, “You have to laugh at it, it’s funny.” Can’t help but laugh, Leno, was asked if he would become sly in the future.
“Did I learn from this? Of course not.”
