Posted by Adam

Saturday October 10, 2009

David Letterman didn’t want to make an on-air apology to his wife Regina Lasko for having sexual relations with female members of his staff — but she made him!

“My wife…has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it’s your responsibility, you try to fix it,” Dave said on Monday’s Late Show.

“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.”

According to Fox News, the Monday apology “wasn’t something Dave wanted to do at all.”

“He wanted the whole thing to blow over,” a source said. “But Regina told him he better make an apology to let everyone know how sorry he was for how much he hurt and humiliated her.

“She demanded that he go over with her exactly what he was going to tell viewers and studio audience members on Monday. She was even willing to allow him to make one or two jokes to be a part of it as long as they weren’t at her expense.”

But Lasko was not laughing when Letterman took her concession too far, throwing in more than the agreed-upon one or two wisecracks about his affairs, says the source.

“Regina felt like Dave’s humorous take on the apology lessened the sincerity of it, and she’s not happy at all,” explained the insider.

Recent reports claimed Lasko wants a divorce.

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