David Letterman has revealed that he was the victim of a $2 million extortion attempt — and that he had had sexual relations with female members of his staff.
Three weeks ago Letterman found a package in the backseat of his car left by somebody — believed to be Robert Halderman, a producer for CBS — claiming to have information about sexual activity between the 62-year-old star and employees of his program.
“I get to looking through it and there’s a letter in the package and it says, ‘I know that you do some terrible, terrible things,” Letterman sad on his CBS Late Show Thursday. “And I can prove that you do these terrible things.’ Sure enough, contained in the package was stuff to prove that I do terrible things. He’s going to take all the terrible stuff he knows about my life — and according to this packet, there seems to be a lot of terrible stuff he knows about — and he’s going to put it into a movie unless I give him some money.”
Per his attorney’s advice, the chat show host decided to take action. “This morning, I did something I’ve never done in my life,” Letterman said as the cameras rolled. “I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury.
“I had to tell them how I was disturbed by this I was worried for myself, I was worried for my family, I felt menaced by this, and I had to tell them all of the creepy things that I have done that were going to be exposed.”
Dave then admitted to having sex with his staff members.
“My response to that is, yes I have,” he said. “Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would. Especially for the women. But that’s a decision for them to make if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. I feel like I need to protect these people — I need to certainly protect my family.”
Dave has been married to Regina Lasko since March of this year and the two had dated since 1986. They have a 5-year-old son Harry.
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