He chose to go directly down the 60- to 70-foot slope instead of using the prescribed mile-and-a-half route. Sadly, the slope turned out to be steeper than it seemed.
Leno told TMZ, “I fell and rolled down the hill.” He clarified that he hurt his eye when he struck his head on a rock during the fall. During the conversation,
Leno lifted his eyepatch and said that the impact had left his eye swollen shut. “I went to the hospital when I returned to Los Angeles,” Leno said. “But it’s okay, it’s not that big of a deal.”
Leno performed barely three hours after the accident because he refused to postpone his planned comedy program in spite of the incident. A Series of Bad Lucks Leno.
Has had a number of injuries over the previous several years, which this most recent accident adds to. A wire stretched across a parking lot clotheslined him off his motorbike earlier in 2023.
