Overview
- Douglas writes that he had been a regular guest on Letterman’s show but left after a final appearance in which Letterman aired a commercial featuring Douglas’s late mother without warning and then “grilled” him.
- He says the segment made him feel Letterman was “making fun” of his mother and that the experience revealed what he calls a “nasty sense of humor.”
- Douglas says he declined invitations to return for 18 straight years even though Letterman sent personal apology letters, because he felt the host had crossed a line.
- The memoir says the two men reconciled after Douglas’s 2010 cancer diagnosis when Letterman conducted a respectful interview that Douglas describes as sincere and sympathetic.
- Published by Grand Central Publishing, the book also discloses other personal revelations such as an affair and dramatic weight loss during his cancer battle, and it has prompted renewed media attention that reframes long-running private disputes.