<p style="font-weight: 400;">Former late-night host Jay Leno, who suffered third-degree burns on his face when he was working on his 1907 White Steam Car and an explosion occurred, gave a succinct explanation for why he has not complained about his recovery.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Leno, who hosted The Tonight Show between 1992 and 2009, was working on a clogged fuel line when gas spurted onto his face and hands, followed by a spark that ignited the gasoline, as TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/15/jay-leno-car-fire-friend-saves-life-flames-burns/">reported.</a> He issued a <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/11/14/jay-leno-speaks-out-after-suffering-serious-burns-from-car-fire/">statement</a> after the accident in which he said, “I got some serious burns from a gasoline fire. I am OK. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In an interview published Sunday in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/jay-leno-electric-cars-space-accident-11670600948">The Wall Street Journal</a>, Leno offered typically self-effacing commentary on his refusal to languish in self-pity, declaring, “You have to joke about it. There’s nothing worse than whiny celebrities. If you joke about it, people laugh along with you.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Eight days later, I had a brand new face,” Leno said of the accident, quipping, “And it’s better than what was there before.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: var(--article-font-weight);" data-type="paragraph">“But really, it was an accident, that’s all,” he continued. “Anybody who works with their hands on a regular basis is going to have an accident at some point. If you play football, you get a concussion or a broken leg. Anything you do, there’s a risk factor.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: var(--article-font-weight);" data-type="paragraph">Soon after the accident, Leno’s doctor, plastic surgeon Peter Grossman, acknowledged Leno suffered “significant burns to his face and hands” and would need a “surgical excision and grafting procedure,” but added,  “He seems to be a gentleman who really doesn&#8217;t want to make a big deal of this,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jay-lenos-doctor-gives-update-after-suffered-serious-burns-gasoline-fire">according</a> to Fox News. “He wants to get back to work, that&#8217;s what he does. I had to tell him that he needs to step back a bit and that these things take time.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Leno underwent grafting procedures on both his hands and face at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles.  Leno’s accident occurred on November 13; after spending over a week in the hospital he performed November 27 at The Comedy &amp; Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">As he entered the club, Leno <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/jay-leno-returns-stand-stage-144733025.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joked</a>, “We got two shows tonight: Regular and extra-crispy.”</p>
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