Jay Leno seen with serious bruises, eye patch after he ‘fell down’ hill

It's the third major accident for Jay Leno in recent years. Previously he suffered gasoline fire burns and, later, a motorcycle accident.

Jay Leno is a bit worse for wear these days, sporting some shocking bruising to his face, an eye patch and a broken wrist.

The injuries came when the 74-year-old former late-night host fell down a 60-foot hill while on his way to dinner, he told reporters ahead of a show Monday night.

Leno, speaking to Inside Edition, said he’d been staying at the Hampton Inn outside Pittsburgh on Saturday when he decided to venture out for dinner ahead of a nearby show he was performing that night.

While staff had given him directions to the restaurant, he said the walk would have been about two-and-a-half kilometres, so he decided to take a shortcut down a steep hill instead.

That’s when he said he took a tumble, leaving him with a broken wrist, a lost fingernail and substantial bruising on the left side of his body.

He showed off his injuries to the camera, lifting his eye patch to show his eye swollen shut, and his wrist wrapped in a cast.

“I fell down. Boom, boom, boom,” he told TMZ in a separate interview, explaining that he, “rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye.”