Jay Leno has filed for guardianship of his wife Mavis, 77, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
As TMZ reported, the 73-year-old TV legend filed legal documents on Friday to become executor of Mavis' estate.
It is unclear when Mavis was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, degenerative brain disease in which the buildup of abnormal proteins causes nerve cells to die.
Since their marriage in 1980, the couple has been together for more than four decades.
Conservatorship is a legal status in which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of a minor or incapacitated person.
Jay Leno filed legal documents Friday to manage Mavis' estate even though she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Pictured: Jay and Mavis on August 8, 2022 in Malibu, California
Jay and Mavis are seen in a photo taken on July 11, 1989 at the UCLA campus in Westwood
During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Jay said that people should “marry the person they want to be” and that he “married the perfect person.”
The comedian and former TV show host was seen driving around Los Angeles in December in his Tesla Cybertruck, the latest addition to his extensive automobile collection.
His outing came 11 months after he broke his collarbone in a motorcycle accident – an incident that occurred two months after he was burned in an engine fire.
On November 12, 2022, Leno and his friend Dave Killackey were working on one of his vintage cars at his LA mansion when his 1907 White Steam Car burst into flames and exploded in his face.
Then Leno's face caught fire as Killackey said: “I couldn't see his face, it was a wall of fire.”
After preventing Leno's entire body from bursting into flames, Killackey extinguished the fire in the car.
In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Jay said he went to hospital after the shocking incident and then decided to go home “to tell his wife”.
The 73-year-old comedian was spotted rolling around town in his Tesla Cybertruck in December
Temporary skin grafts made from “human cadaver skin” were attached to the comedian’s body. Dr. Peter Grossman said Leno suffered “relatively severe” burns to “approximately seven percent of his body.”
Mavis was seen visiting her husband with a friend in the hospital car park following a steam car incident (left). Jay's wife looks dejected as she approaches the hospital with several bags in hand (right).
“Then I went to bed and when I woke up the pillow melted into my face,” he said.
Mavis visited her husband while he was in hospital and looked grim as she visited him with his third degree burns.
He then went back to the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills Hospital in LA, where he was treated for his severe burns and released ten days later.
Dr. Peter Grossman told NBC News that Leno suffered “relatively severe” burns to “approximately seven percent of his body,” including his face, chest and hands.
He performed skin grafts on the star, removing his burned skin and replacing it with skin from a skin bank. He found that “much of the thickness of the skin was broken.”
In a recent interview with Pierce Morgan, Jay jokingly described the frightening incident as he told Morgan that he had gotten a “whole new ear.”
Just two months after the painful incident, Leno broke his collarbone, two ribs and fractured both kneecaps in a motorcycle accident.
Jay said that people should “marry the person they want to be” and that he “married the perfect person.” Pictured: He and Mavis are seen cuddling up together in 1990
Leno was seriously injured in an accident involving a vintage motorcycle on January 17, just two months after he suffered severe burns when an engine exploded in his face
He was riding a vintage motorcycle in Las Vegas on Jan. 17 when he pulled into a parking lot and was struck by a piece of wire stretched across the road with no sign above it.
He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Just last week I got knocked off my motorcycle.” So I broke my collarbone. I have two broken ribs. I have two broken kneecaps.
'But I'm ok! I'm fine, I'm working. I'm working this weekend.
“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.
“So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. “It just pulled me into the clothesline and, boom, threw me off the bike,” Jay said.