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Jay Leno is “black and blue” after falling off a 60-foot hill while out to dinner.

The former “Tonight Show” host, who is 74, suffered significant bruising to the left side of his face in the accident last weekend, he told reporters ahead of a show in Beverly Hills on Monday night.

Leno, who was wearing a patch over his left eye, told Inside Edition that he had stayed at a Hampton Inn about 30 miles outside Pittsburgh on Saturday evening. He fell into the trap while walking to a restaurant near the hotel before a performance he was doing nearby.

Leno showed off his injuries on camera, revealing that he broke his wrist, lost a fingernail and was “all black and blue” – on the left side of his body, as well as his face. He also lifted his patch to show that his eye was swollen shut.

In a separate interview the same evening, Leno told TMZ that he did not have a car that evening and that the route given to him by hotel staff would involve walking about a mile.

So he decided to take a shortcut down a hill instead.

He told TMZ he thought: “The hill doesn’t look that steep – about 60, 70 feet. Let me see if I can get down there… (he screams) and then I fell down, boom, boom, boom.’

Leno said he “hit a ton of rocks,” but that didn’t stop him from continuing to perform just three hours later. He was not treated at the hospital until he was back home in Los Angeles.

“It’s not a problem, it’s OK,” he told TMZ.

CNN has reached out to Leno’s representatives for comment.

The fall comes two years after Leno suffered severe burns to his face and body. The star was treated at LA’s Grossman Burn Center in November 2022 for injuries to his face, chest and hands that resulted from a fire in his home garage.

Leno, an avid car collector, had been working under a vehicle when he was burned.

Just months after that incident, he broke his collarbone and two ribs and fractured both kneecaps in a motorcycle accident.

When Leno was questioned by TMZ about his bad luck, he said: “The great thing about these times is that you don’t learn from your mistakes – you just keep doing the same stupid things.”

Leno will perform Wednesday evening at a charity event to benefit the burn hospital that treated him in 2022.