Former late-night host ‘all black and blue’ after falling down hill, wearing eye patch
Jay Leno fell down a 60-foot hill, breaking a wrist and is now “black and blue.”
The former “Tonight Show” host suffered bruising to the left side of his face during the accident over the weekend.
The 74-year-old, who is sporting a patch over his left eye, told “Inside Edition” that he had been staying at a Hampton Inn outside of Pittsburgh on Saturday night. He fell while he walking to a restaurant close to the hotel.
Leno said he broke his wrist and lost a fingernail.
Leno told TMZ he didn’t have a car and decided to take a shortcut.
“The hill doesn’t look that steep – about 60, 70 feet,” he told TMZ. “Let me see if I can down there… (he screams) and then I fell down, boom, boom, boom.”
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