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'A little story'

After telling the unsuspecting studio audience that he had "a little story" to relate, Letterman slowly, precisely, and with more than a few pauses for humor led us through a series of events that began in early September with his discovery, at 6 a.m., of an envelope on the back seat of his car. Inside was a letter alleging that the star had done terrible things and included some proof. "Maybe this looks better to you at noon," Letterman said, deadpan, "but at 6 in the morning, all you can think of is every terrible thing you've ever done in your life."

Reminding us that he is a man motivated by "Lutheran, Midwestern guilt" and repeatedly referring to the charges as "terrible stuff" and "creepy stuff," Letterman explained how he called his lawyer and then authorities who informed him it was blackmail. Letterman and his lawyer then met with the writer of the letter to make sure he was serious, "because we can all have a bad day, things fall through the cracks, you inadvertently blackmail someone." But the blackmailer was serious and so a phony check for $2 million was cut and accepted and Halderman subsequently arrested.

By the time Letterman finally gripped his coffee cup and revealed what the terrible stuff was -- that he had slept with women who worked for him on this show -- it seemed, as it was supposed to seem, almost a relief. No one dead, no minors involved, no sex tape about to hit the Internet! Especially when the host did not follow up with the standard painful apology to his wife, his family, the women involved or his fans. Indeed, with the air of self-deprecating dignity he has perfected over the years, Letterman proclaimed that he wanted to protect these women, his family, himself and his job. If the women felt motivated to come forward, so be it, but he wasn't about to let some blackmailer make his personal life public and he wasn't going say anything more on the matter.

Kilde: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,2491746.story