Jimmy Fallon’s Finger Almost Amputated After Fall

Jimmy Fallon returned to the “Tonight Show” on Monday revealing the gruesome details about his June fall, an accident where he almost lost a finger.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be back and seeing you guys here. What a crazy break we had, a two-week break. So basically what happened is I tripped and fell on a braided rug that my wife loved, and I can’t wait to burn it to the ground. I tripped and fell and I caught my fall. So I’m getting up and my finger’s sideways. So I go, ‘Oh, my God! Did I just break my finger? This is the lamest thing in the whole world.’ It completely looks fake, like in a cheap horror movie where you see a broken finger. It looks like that! That’s what it looks like. So I wrap my hand in a towel and I get in a cab and go to the emergency room. I go, ‘I broke my finger! I think I broke my finger!’ And they go, ‘Oh, you didn’t break your finger,'” he told his audience.

The late night host suffered a much more serious injury than a break.

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“It’s a thing called ring avulsion. A-V-U-L-S-I-O-N. If you Google it, it’s graphic images. Don’t Google it. But ring avulsion, it’s a real thing…My ring got caught on a countertop when I was going down and stuck there and pulled my finger out,” he explained. “Trust me, I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ I didn’t even look at the thing. So I go, ‘Can you fix it?’ And they go, ‘Oh, no. No. We’ve got to send you somewhere else.'”

After going to a second hospital Jimmy saw a glimmer of hope when his doctor walked in.

“I was at Beth Israel. I had to go over to Bellevue Hospital. This amazing doctor, Dr. David Chiu, comes in. He has a bowtie and cowboy boots. ‘That’s my doctor! That’s my guy!’ I knew it when he walked in. I go, ‘That’s the guy who’s going to save my finger,'” he said. “So this guy did surgery for like six hours – microsurgery – so it’s like under a microscope. He had to take a vein out of my foot. It’s a crazy story! I didn’t know this was happening because I was knocked out at this point. So he took a vein out of my foot and put it in there. Veins only work one way…so you have to remember which way and reverse it, and if you’re putting it together and you do one missed stitch or something like that, the vein closes up and it’s useless. You screwed up and it’s not going to happen. And he did it. He saved my finger.”

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Adding, “I won’t get feeling back for eight weeks, he said. I was in the ICU for 10 days. And I’ve gotta say, the doctors and the nurses over at Bellevue Hospital, thank you so much for taking care of me. Oh, my gosh. I love you guys. It’s a tough job. It’s a tough, tough job. You guys are rock stars and just awesome, awesome people.”

— Jesse Spero