If you thought it was unsettling to watch people laugh and applaud while David Letterman revealed that he was being blackmailed over affairs with his own employees, it’s starting to look like we’ve only scratched the surface. Here are some more of the delightful details about Dave’s devious dalliances:
CBS’s decision to withhold the clips online was prompted by a request from producers at Mr. Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
In other words, Letterman’s trying to cover his tracks. After talking about it on the air in the first place. Does he really think this is going to make people less curious?
- Let’s say you’re an incredibly wealthy and famous TV star, and you want to fool around with your own staff. You can’t take them home with you, obviously, because it’d be a bit awkward to explain to your
girlfriend wife and young child. You can’t take them to a hotel, because everybody knows who you are. What to do?
CBS to the rescue! NYDN:
An ex-”Late Show” intern unmasked herself Saturday as one of David Letterman’s former flings – and sources revealed the randy funnyman keeps a bachelor pad atop the Ed Sullivan Theater.
“I was madly in love with him at the time,” said Holly Hester. “I would have married him. He was hilarious.”
The NYU alum, who it appears went on to become a top Hollywood producer, told TMZ.com that the relationship started in the early ’90s when Letterman called and asked her on a date to the movies…
The Hester quoted by TMZ made the stunning admission as a Letterman show source dished that he kept a secret bedroom above his set in the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway. “He doesn’t have to come out,” a staffer said. “He has a suite upstairs.”
An ex-”Late Show” staffer said Letterman kept a room insiders dubbed “the bunker” that was open only to his favorite young female underlings.
One of the hallmarks of David Letterman’s career is that you hardly ever see him out in public. Now we know why!
“I got no problem with 18!” Yeah, we’re getting that, Dave.
So there’s the guy with a child born out of wedlock and a sex pad above his TV studio, sitting in judgment of a 17-year-old girl who made a big mistake and is living with it. Because for whatever reason, he doesn’t like her mom. And he’s getting called out on it by Dr. Phil!
The Palins are just one of the targets of Letterman’s moralizing over the years, going back at least to Clinton/Lewinsky. Sounds like classic psychological projection to me. He knew that what he was doing was wrong, but he couldn’t take a good look at himself, so he lashed out at others who did something similar. He’s a rotten person who doesn’t want to think of himself as rotten, so he’s always on the lookout for rottenness in others.
What a jerk.
Update: Newsweek looks at some other creepy Letterman moments that make more sense in retrospect.
Update: Letterman Apologizes to His Wife While Taping Show, Making Everyone Realize He Didn’t Do So in the First Place
Update: Psychologist Stanton Peele says, “Here are five questions I’d like to ask Mr. Letterman.”
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