Jay Leno explained to Today how he’d been working on a clogged fuel line underneath his 1907 White Steam Car with a friend when “boom, I got a face full of gas.”
magazine. In the first of two interviews published Tuesday, the 72-year-old car aficionado explained tohow he’d been working on a clogged fuel line underneath his 1907 White Steam Car with a friend when “boom, I got a face full of gas.” To, he said, “I knew how close I was to the pilot light and I thought, ‘Uh oh.’” The pilot light caught a spark and jumped “and my face caught on fire,” Leno told NBC’s Hoda Kotb.
When his friend, Dave Killackey, realized what was happening, he yanked the formerthat he’d been under the car and on fire for about 10 seconds. “Any longer than that I could have lost my eye,” he said. After two skin grafting surgeries and a number of sessions in hyperbaric chambers, Leno was back onstage less than two weeks later, joking to reporters outside the venue, “We got two shows tonight: regular and extra crispy.
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