Late-night television icon Jay Leno suffered major fractures earlier this month after he was “clotheslined” by a wire while riding his vintage motorcycle.
Leno, 72, sustained the injuries when he ran into an unmarked Las Vegas wire strung across the street on Jan. 17.
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“Just last week, I got knocked off my motorcycle,” he said in a report published Thursday. “So, I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”
“But I’m OK,” he added. “I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”
Leno had no idea the wire was in his way, he said.
“I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” according to Leno.
“So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”
This latest set of major injuries arrives two months after Leno suffered serious burns while working on one of his cars.
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For nine days, Leno remained in a hospital, enduring treatments to remold his ear and help heal burns on his hands and face.
CNBC also announced this week it is set to cancel Jay Leno’s Garage as part of the network’s shake-up to its lineup, ending Leno’s 30-year run with NBCUniversal.
