Are you truly sleeping well if it's only for four hours a day? I don't think your body can truly rest at such a wicked turnaround rate. Plenty of people make up their own excuses or valid reasons as to why they don't sleep well. But if I only get four hours of sleep, I'm fighting a nap all day. But it's always been this way for former late night host Jay Leno. Now, he's expanding on why he refuses to get his full eight hours.
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Recently, Leno sat down with PEOPLE magazine to promote his new film Midas Man. There, he expands upon what he said on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast about his chaotic sleep schedule. Apparently, he's only getting four hours of sleep nowadays. What's even worse is that it's always been this way too. "I've never a big sleeper. I thought, 'Well, I just gotta change my way, so say I go to bed at 2:00 or 2:30, I'll go to bed at 11:30,' and then I was up at 3:00," Leno says.
Jay Leno Says His Lack of Work Makes Him Get Up After Four Hours
"Now I'm reading for three and a half hours before I have to do anything. That's not working. So I just went back to my old way of going to bed at 2 or 2:30 and then waking up at 7:30 or 8:00," he continues.
In typical Leno fashion, he does joke that he doesn't do any real labor for him to really need that full amount of sleep. Why do I need the same eight hours compared to the people who have real jobs? It's a pretty firm perspective even if he's joking. "I'm just not a big sleeper," Leno emphasizes. "I suppose if I had a real job where I had to work hard, I'd be more exhausted. So that's probably what it is."
