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Published January 30, 2024, 9:57 am ET
Jay Leno remains optimistic despite his wife Mavis Leno's dementia diagnosis.
The former late-night host, 73, filed Friday for guardianship of his wife as she battles the illness.
He broke his silence on her condition when the Chron spoke to him earlier this week while he was out with two male pals.
“She's fine. Everyone's fine, we're fine,” the comedian said while giving a thumbs up from the driver's seat of his classic car.
Leno continued: “[I] draw up a will in case something happens.”
On Sunday evening, the former “Tonight Show” host and his wife, 77, attended a show at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California.
Leno played a set at the venue that day.
The couple smiled and waved to onlookers as they entered. The couple married in 1980 and have no children.
TMZ reported on January 26 that Leno had filed legal documents to become administrator of Mavis' estate.
While news of the filing only surfaced this month, the papers were drawn up in November.
Jay Leno and his wife Mavis Leno attend the taping of “The Merv Griffin Show” on September 26, 1979. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
According to the documents, a hearing is scheduled for April 9 in Los Angeles, which Mavis is not required to attend due to her “medical incapacity.”
Her “current condition renders her incapable of implementing the estate plan,” the documents say.
Mavis is currently “suffering from dementia, a severe neurocognitive disorder.”
“Unfortunately, Mavis has been increasingly losing capacity and orientation in relation to space and time for several years.”
“Jay is fully capable of continuing to support Mavis' physical and financial needs, as he has done throughout their marriage,” the documents also state.
Leno “believes…that Mavis consents to the conservatorship of the estate and the appointment of Jay as her conservator and that she would not prefer that someone else be appointed.”
Mavis was seen with Leno for the first time since he filed for conservatorship in Hermosa Beach, California, on Sunday evening. LionsShareNews / BACKGRID
The conservatorship comes more than a year after the “Jay Leno's Garage” host was severely burned in a car fire in November 2022.
In January 2023, he also broke several bones in a motorcycle accident.
“That was the first accident. OK? Then just last week I was knocked off my motorcycle. So I broke my collarbone. I have two broken ribs. I have two broken kneecaps,” he told a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter this month.
“So I turned down a side street and went through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, someone had strung a wire across the parking lot, but there was no flag hanging on it,” he explained at the time. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just put me on the clothesline and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”
Leno added, “The bike kept going, and you know how that works.”
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