Video: David Letterman Publicly Apologizes to Wife During Show Taping
David Letterman apologized to his wife, Regina Lasko, while taping his first talk show since announcing last Thursday that he'd had sex with female employees, Usmagazine.com confirms.
"She has been horribly hurt by my behavior," Letterman said to his audience, "and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it's your responsibility, you try to fix it. And at that point, there's only two things that can happen: either you're going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you're going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed, so let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me."
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(The late night host married longtime girlfriend Lasko, with whom he has 5-year-old son Harry, on March 19 in Choteau, Montana, after dating for more than 20 years.)
While apologizing to his staff and his Worldwide Pants production company on the set of CBS' Late Show, an audience member told Us that he seemed more serious than usual.
"I'm terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position," he said. "Inadvertently, I just wasn't thinking ahead. And, moreover, the staff here has been wonderfully supportive to me, not just through this furor, but through all the years that we've been on television and especially all the years here at CBS, so, again, my thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I’ve gotten myself involved in."
The 62-year-old also tried to find humor in the situation. In his monologue, he jokes, "did your weekend just fly by?" (Watch video above.)
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Letterman stunned his audience Thursday night when he revealed his dalliances with female employees after he'd been threatened with a $2 million extortion plot by CBS producer Robert "Joe" Halderman.
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Stephanie Birkitt, 34, was named as the woman at the center of the scandal. Reports have linked her to both Letterman and Halderman, who pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, and was released from jail Friday on $200,000 bail.
If convicted, Halderman faces five to 15 years behind bars.
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52I am not here to judge David. That is a matter betweeen his wife and the ladies who worked for him. The thing that I have a problem with is how he relentlessly went after others for infidelity. This puts him in the camp of a hypocrite. So , I think he should drop his jokes that make fun of other people's sex lives. The same goes for the ministers and politicians that try to control what others do, while they themselves often do worse. In fact , as far as I am concerned, we can drop this entire puritanical attitude, and live with the fact that we are all human.
Didn't think that was much of an apology. I'd divorce his butt! What a jerk!
12:42 a.m., people who call others prudes and say there's nothing wrong with what he did are the ones who are abnormal. He's been with his woman for over 20 years and it's NOT OK to cheat! I bet you're one of those stupid men who do!
Who would do him? Both him and his wife looks like dogs!
he made a mistake move on people
David has always turned me off, and now I won't even watch him occasionally. He is a liar and a cheat.
He's only sorry because he got caught. He's a sleaze. And he can't use the lame excuse that he wasn't married because he was with his girlfriend for a very long time. he was in a committed relationship.
he is doing the right thing now let's move on people acting like this does't happend
I see Dave's team is blogging on his behalf. What a joke. He is scary. He is a dirty liar and I hope he is taken off the air. HE IS CREEPY! FIRST PALIN'S DAUGHTER AND NOW THIS!
I don't know how people can continue to watch this hypocrite tell jokes about other people's sexual indiscretions.
It was BEFORE his marriage, the relationships were all adults and consensual, there is NO policy at his company against employees, bosses dating each other, (I've never known a workplace where employees and bosses DIDN'T date, they're ALL like soap operas). No one on his staff has ever had a bad thing to say about Dave. This is only about some nutcase jealous idiot trying to extort money because he's messed up his own life. And during 20 years of "dating" off and on, I highly doubt Dave's wife did not know he saw other woman too. I don't think she's stupid. It was ALL before he was married, so what's the problem? I dated other men while I dated the guy I eventually married. THEN I stopped seeing the other men when I married, as Dave then stopped seeing other women when he married. So, again, what's the problem? Except for the nut extortionist.
I love Dave. We are all human. Let's move on.
My husband travels a lot for work, but I knew that from the six months we dated before we got married. Letterman's wife had 15 YEARS to figure out what he was about...and she still married him. To be upset now because the tiger has stripes is more than a little disingenuous.
HE IS ONLY SORRY HE GOT CAUGHT!!!
12:42, just wait till you get cheated on... And I don't think he actually apologized publicly to his partner of 23 years...nope, didn't hear one.
Dear Amoral People, Even the person you are defending has ADMITTED that what he did was wrong. Dave DISAGREES with you. STFD and STFU you haven't a leg to stand on.
Totally Agree with ... October 05, 2009 - 8:09pm Anonymous Says: Regina Lasko pack-up your self-respect and the kid and move out! Get a good lawyer and get your fair share of the dough and have the life and love you truly deserve. Dave won't change or he would have by now. I'm sure he'll say and do all the right things for now as he has everything to lose, but can you ever trust a swine like that!?! Totally Agree.. I've never been a big fan of David Letterman and his show to begin with, now I dislike him even more. I can't believe his wife wasted over 20 years on this PIG. YES He's like Every Politician - If "Girls" throw themselves at these guy's feet they never say NO, and respect themselves and their family. Instead of respecting his young Son and his wife, guys like him reach for the Viagra Bottle and say LET's GO at it like Animals. He's such an OLD Pathetic Dirty FOOL !! I'm sure he's cheated on Regina during their 20 + years of "Dating" multiple times and he's cheated on her again after they married and several times more after she birthed his son. Although its not easy, life never is, she should gather her dignity, her child and clean out his pockets. Regina and Harry deserve better. No apology on earth is good enough, after she spend 20+ years with him thinking she could fix his womanizing ways and his wandering eye. No Apology on earth is good enough for his actions.. It doesn't matter if he apologized in front of All of America to his Wife and Son or if he apologized in the privacy of their own home. Once a cheater always a cheater. Once a Playboy Always a Playboy. Apologies can be considered perhaps if he'd cheated on Regina perhaps only one time but if its been through out their 20 year relationship there is No Apology on Earth that makes up for that kind of betrayl.
Men who want to have sex are not perverted or scummy...some of you people make me sick...trying to portray him as somehow evil or bad because of this...my god America is so prudish and backwards about sex these days.
Dave is good guy...he gets a little on the side...big deal...He wasnt even married yet...I hate you conservative people here who think that there is some thing wrong with this...there isnt!
What a load of BS. He's been going about this behavior for years, he knew it was wrong the whole time, and it did it anyway, over and over and over, and all the while telling jokes about other people who were doing the same thing. The only thing he's sorry about is that he got caught, and the only thing that irritates me more than this unfunny d0uche is his delusional fans.