Jay Leno suffers broken bones in motorcycle accident after garage fire - NBC News

Jay Leno is reportedly recovering from a motorcycle mishap past week that near him with respective breached bones conscionable months after helium sustained superior burns successful a fire that broke retired successful his Los Angeles garage.

Speaking to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the comedian and speech amusement big revealed that helium was knocked disconnected his motorcycle Jan. 17 successful an incidental that near him with a breached collarbone, 2 breached ribs and 2 cracked kneecaps.

“But I’m OK!” Leno, 72, reportedly told the outlet. “I’m OK, I’m working. I’m moving this weekend.”

The erstwhile “Tonight Show” big said helium had been moving connected a vintage motorcycle and was investigating the conveyance retired erstwhile helium noticed the odor of leaking gas.

“So I turned down a broadside thoroughfare and chopped done a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, immoderate feline had a ligament strung crossed the parking batch but with nary emblem hanging from it,” Leno told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “So, you know, I didn’t spot it until it was excessively late. It conscionable clothesline, maine and, boom, knocked maine disconnected the bike."

“The motorcycle kept going, and you cognize however that works out," helium said.

Representatives for Leno did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The comedian reportedly said helium hadn't discussed the motorcycle mishap publically yet owed to the overwhelming sum of his betterment from his burns sustained successful November.

Leno suffered superior burns to his hands and thorax and third-degree burns to his face after his vintage car erupted successful flames Nov. 12 successful his Los Angeles garage.

In an exclusive interrogation on NBC’s “TODAY” show, Leno told Hoda Kotb that helium had been moving connected his vintage 1907 White Motor Co. steam-powered car with a person erstwhile helium noticed that the vehicle’s substance enactment was clogged.

Leno said helium had gone underneath the conveyance to effort to hole it. “And I said, ‘Blow immoderate aerial done the line,’” helium recalled. “Then suddenly, boom, I got a look afloat of gas. And past the aviator airy jumped, and my look caught connected fire.

“My person pulled maine retired and jumped connected apical of maine and benignant of smothered the fire,” Leno said.

The comedian was taken by ambulance to a infirmary and past sent to the Grossman Burn Center successful Los Angeles, wherever helium received hyperbaric treatment, an oxygen therapy that “can accelerate pain coiled healing,” according to the facility's website.

Despite the severity of his injuries, Leno returned to doing stand-up conscionable weeks aft the incident. And adjacent aft sustaining further injuries this month, the comedian appears undeterred, arsenic helium prepares for a venue debut at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas for a amusement billed for March 31.