Just over a month since Jay Leno’s horror accident that left him in hospital with major burns, the star is opening up about what happened that day.
The TV star ended up in hospital with severe second-degree burns all over his face and upper body last month, after one of his vehicles burst into flames, now, Leno has revealed his friend “jumped on top of him” to smother the fire during the horror accident.
In his first sit-down TV interview since the incident, he told the Today show: “It was a 1907 White Steam Car.
”The fuel line was clogged so I was underneath it. It sounded clogged and I said, ‘Blow some air through the line,’ and so he did... Suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas.
”And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire. And I said to my friend, I said, ‘Dave, I’m on fire.’ And Dave’s like, ‘All right.’”I said, ‘No, Dave, I’m on fire.’ And then, ‘Oh my god.’ Dave, my friend, pulled me out and jumped on top of me and kind of smothered the fire.”