Jay Leno is back and feeling ready to talk about his shocking accident. As you probably heard, the Tonight Show vet was involved in a fire in his famous Burbank car garage — and suffered third-degree burns on his face, chest, and hands.
He’s lucky to be alive after the “bigger than most” accident, and he knows it! In a new interview with People, one of the first since he was released from the Grossman Burn Center last month, he opened up about what it was really like to go through that. Photos: Jay Looking Amazing After Getting Out Of Burn Center First, he told the real story about what happened — which he didn’t feel like was accurately reported.
He explained that he was working on his 1907 White Steam Car. He and friend Dave Killackey were trying to unclog a fuel line in the undercarriage of the century-old vehicle.
He explained: He had Dave push a little air into the fuel line to unclog it, which may have been a bad idea because of where Jay was standing.
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