David Letterman says showbiz made him a ‘worse person,’ found humanity living quiet life in Indiana

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GQ. “In my life here in Indiana and at my home with my family, I am probably the person I actually am. And I regret that they don’t kind of cross at any point.”When asked whether show business made him a worse person, Letterman was quick to answer. “Yes.

You’re exactly right,” he said. “And I don’t know, maybe it’s only because I went through show business. I got that out of my system eventually that I can concentrate on being a better person and probably couldn’t have reached this point if I had not gone through the exercise of trying to succeed at show business.“I just feel like personally, I have greater humanity than I did when I was in show business.

It was all single-minded and great pressure, real unimagined, and I felt like it’s all on me, and it’s all on me, and that it was all nonsense.”Letterman, who recently launched Letterman TV FAST Channel on Samsung TV Plus, acknowledged that he was often portrayed as “miserable” during most of his interviews in the ‘80s and ’90s. “There’s a couple of things going on there,” he said. “I was drinking heavily in those days — that may have provided some fuel for misery.

And I guess not achieving what I imagined to be, like — you take Johnny Carson, there’s never going to be anybody as good at that kind of show as Johnny.