David Letterman, 75, Admits He’s Devastated After Son Harry, 18, Goes Off To College

“They archer maine he’s successful college,” said David Letterman when joking astir his son, Harry, during an quality connected the Sept. 28 occurrence of Jimmy Kimmel Live! During this rare instrumentality to late-night television, David, 75, spoke astir his feelings aft his 18-year-old lad began college. “The separation of the kid leaving home, I thought it would beryllium nothing, but it’s devastating,” said Letterman. “Am I the lone 1 that feels that way?” helium asked the audience, which responded with sympathy for the late-night icon.

“He’s been gone a period today,” added Letterman, who aboriginal said that helium texts his lad present and then. “I got a substance from him today. I cognize everyone goes done this, and forgive maine if I’m sounding a small over-emotional astir this situation. Well, helium texted maine contiguous and said, ‘Guess what? No classes.’ And close away, I think, ‘Well, I’m getting my money’s worthy today.’ I substance back, ‘Go retired and person immoderate fun.’ ‘Okay.’… and past I add, ‘take pictures.’ And helium texts back, ‘of what?’ And I said, ‘of chill things you spot connected your time disconnected from college.'” A fewer minutes later, Harry sent a photograph of “two aged radical having lunch,” which had David laughing. “Let’s pump the breaks connected each this amusive we’re having astatine fun, fer gods sake. Easy does it, buddy.”

avid Letterman, center, his woman Regina Lasko, right, and lad Harry circuit extracurricular the John F. Kennedy Library successful Boston (Shutterstock)

“We had a truckload of crap to instrumentality up to his country and his country man, it’s not arsenic large arsenic [Jimmy Kimmel‘s] desk.” From there, David relayed a communicative of moving Harry into his dorm. After uncovering parking “several acres away,” Dave said that it was “ninety-six degrees, and past the kid and I transportation a sofa up 3 flights of stairs.” When Jimmy asked if this communicative was true, David laughed. “No. Does this worldly person to beryllium true?”

David besides said helium called his lad a week into assemblage to cheque up connected him. “I said, ‘Harry, person you met the kid yet that sells weed?’ I’m reasoning this would get a bully laugh. Harry says, ‘I cannot corroborate oregon deny.'”

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Harry is the lad of the late-night fable and Regina Lasko. Regina, 61, and David began dating successful the precocious 1990s, and they welcomed their lad successful 2003. “I could ne'er ideate ever being a portion of thing that turned retired this beautiful,” David said successful an occurrence of The Late Show, per CBS. Harry is David’s lone kid and is named aft Letterman’s precocious father, Harry Joseph Letterman. “So God bless dad, and God bless Harry,” Letterman said successful 2003, basking successful the glow of fatherhood.