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The tables were turned on David Letterman Friday when the late-night host appeared as a guest on “Live! With Regis and Kelly,” where he admitted he felt “depressed” after his affairs became public last October.

“You take a look at the explosion,” Letterman said, “and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you’re scared and you’re depressed and sad.”

The comments came towards the end of the interview, after co-host Regis Philbin asked Letterman how his home life was.

The “Late Show” host, invoking his trademark humor, replied, “I don’t know if people know about this, but I’ve had some trouble.”

But Letterman painted a brighter picture of his life today, noting that getting knocked down lets you “start looking at the pieces left of your life,” which now can “be better, in a different way.”

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“Dave Moves Out of the House,” screams the headline of the print edition of a National Enquirer article, which goes on to claim, “David Letterman has moved out of his family home after failing to patch things up with his outraged wife Regina.”

According to the Enquirer, Letterman, who admitted to sleeping with female staffers, “is now living in his luxury loft in lower Manhattan while his wife and son stay at his mansion in New York’s swank Westchester County.”

An unnamed (and seemingly unreliable) source conveniently lays out the WHO, WHAT, WHERE and WHY of the Enquirer‘s assertion in two simple sentences: “Dave admitted he’s sleeping in the city after Regina let him have it… Regina told him to ‘get out’ and that’s exactly what he did.”

Well, Gossip Cop finds this all very odd especially since we know for a fact that Letterman, who sometimes stays in Manhattan during the week for his show’s tapings, is actually spending MORE time now in his Westchester home.

Additionally, a rep for the “Late Show” host told Gossip Cop that the moving out story is simply ”not true.”

Seems like just another Stupid Human Trick by the Enquirer.

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During today’s taping of “Late Show with David Letterman,” the talk show host apologized for the attention he drew to his staff and family.

Gossip Cop has his on-air apology:

“I’m terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position.  Inadvertently, I just wasn’t thinking ahead.  And, moreover, the staff here has been wonderfully supportive to me, not just through this furor, but through all the years that we’ve been on television and especially all the years here at CBS, so, again, my thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I’ve gotten myself involved in.

“Now the other thing is my wife, Regina.  She 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.  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.” 

What are your thoughts about the apology. Gossip Cop would like to know.

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Just about four years ago – on September 18, 2005 – when Gossip Cop was a producer at Access Hollywood, I was stuck in legendary Los Angeles traffic en route to the 57^th Annual Emmy Awards. At a certain point, fearing that I would be late, I jumped out of the car and started hoofing it as fast as I could in my tuxedo to the Shrine Auditorium for the ceremony.

About three blocks away, I saw David Letterman, dressed in shorts and smoking a cigar, briskly walking away from the auditorium. With him was a woman dressed in black. That was Stephanie Birkitt, Letterman’s former assistant, with whom he had a sexual relationship, and who later took up with “48 Hours” producer Robert “Joe” Halderman, the alleged exortionist who reportedly used her diary and e-mails as proof of her relationship with Letterman in an effort to squeeze the talk-show host out of $2 million.

As I passed Letterman, who was to honor the late Johnny Carson that evening, I heard him mutter to Birkitt, “I’m not going in, I’m not going in” before plopping himself down on a nearby bus bench.

Surprised by what I had heard and seen, I had a cameraman from Access meet me at the bus stop, where I asked Letterman if I could ask him a few questions. He couldn’t have been more gracious.

First I asked Letterman what the heck he was doing on the bench with minutes to go before the Emmys. Letterman, seated next to Birkett, replied, “We’re just waiting on the bus.” Birkitt then added, “We’re actually about to go in.”

When I then asked Letterman why he wasn’t suited up in a tux, he joked that he was going to wear his shorts that evening: “This is it, this is… pretty expensive this is like an Armani,” before being cut off by Birkett, who said, “Are you ready?”

Birkett clearly enjoyed such a closeness with Letterman that she felt comfortable cutting him off while being interviewed on camera.

That was then. Now Gossip Cop hears that their sexual relationship ended before he married longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko in March 2009.

Gossip Cop also hears that there have been no recorded issues of sexual harassment. Letterman owns the production company behind “Late Show,” Worldwide Pants, and an inside source tells us there have been ZERO complaints.

As for how the talk show host is doing amidst the controversy, the source told Gossip Cop, “Eh, not so well.”

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