14 DAY TRIAL // Television personality David Letterman has been dating Regina Lasko for the last 23 years, in what was (and continues to be) one of the longest-standing romances in the history of showbiz. Just recently, though, Letterman took the plunge and wed his girlfriend in a secret, private ceremony – and then took to his show, the “Late Show with David Letterman” to tell the world about it, reports in the US media reveal.
“On Thursday, at 3 PM, March 19, 2009 at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Montana, I was married to Regina Lasko.” a transcript of the most recent show reads.
“Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, ‘Well, things are going pretty good, let’s just see what happens in about ten years….’ I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years, and I – honestly, whether this happened or not – I secretly felt that men who were married admired me… like I was the last of the real gunslingers, you know what I’m saying?” David jokes.
The description of the entire ceremony is just as funny as the introduction. Turns out, Letterman and his bride-to-be drove to the courthouse with their son Harry in a pick-up truck. At one point on the road, the truck broke down and the talk-show host had to return home on foot to call for assistance, when they were already late for the appointed hour for the marriage.
This, of course, prompted him to think of what he was about to do, asking himself the question of whether he was making a mistake or not. Naturally, he eventually came to the conclusion that marrying Regina was the best thing to do.
“So we get two miles from the house and we get stuck in the mud – I mean, turn the truck over, stuck in the mud. So now we think, ‘Well, somebody’ll come – no, nobody comes along. Nobody comes along – it’s Thursday afternoon, who’s coming along, Zorro? No, nobody – so I get out of the truck and I walk two miles back to the house into a 50 mile an hour wind. It’s not Beverly Hills, it’s Montana, for God’s sakes.” Letterman says of the minor hiccup he had to overcome before getting married.
“And the whole way, I’m thinking, ‘See, smart [expletive], see, see, you try to get married, this is what happens. See, well, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself. Could have happened any other day, but you wait now, see, this is what you get.’ So then we get in the car and Harry says, ‘Are we still going into town?’ and I said, ‘Yes, we are,’ and he gets very upset because mom had told him if I wasn’t back in an hour, the deal was off.” the talk show host concludes the announcement by saying.