NEW YORK — “Tonight” show host Jimmy Fallon spent 10 days in a hospital after tripping and injuring a finger so badly it required six hours of microsurgery to save.
The comic was back at work Monday for the first time following the June 26 fall in his New York home, wearing a cast on his left hand that extended nearly to the fingernail of his ring finger. His wedding ring caught on a surface as he tried to break his fall.
“I tripped and fell in our kitchen on a braided rug,” he said.
His badly bent finger looked like a “horror movie,” and Fallon took a cab to an emergency room. He was told what he thought was a broken finger was much more complicated, and was sent to another hospital. He said he was told that many people with the same injury lose their finger. The complicated surgery involved taking a vein from his foot to help repair the finger.
