Celebrity feuds are nothing new—and the more outspoken the stars involved are, the more entertaining they can be for fans.
In a recently resurfaced clip, 78-year-old icon Cher opened up about the time she insulted David Letterman on his show...and how the interaction apparently left the late night host "traumatized" for years to come.
While performing onstage in a long red wig and headdress, the singer revealed what happened when she was asked by producers to appear on the Late Show With David Letterman in 1986.
"I said 'I'd love to, for $28,000,'" she said (apparently, Cher had a $28k hotel bill she wanted to pay off at the time). "And he said 'We don't do that,' and I said 'Neither do I,'" she continued, adding that 20 minutes later she got a call back saying they would pay the fee after all. When the producer asked why she never wanted to appear on the show before, her answer was characteristically blunt.
"Because I think Dave is really funny, and he's really smart, but sometimes, when he has a guest on that he doesn't like or he doesn't respect, he can be kind of an assh***," Cher said.
During her actual live interview on the show—which was "funny" and "flirty," according to Cher—Letterman asked her the same question: Why had she never agreed to appear on the show before? As Cher struggled to come up with an answer, "out of my mouth, in script, comes, 'Because I thought you were an assh***,'" she recalled.
"Dave told me he was traumatized for five years," Cher continued. "But we became friends, and he was wonderful, except last year, he wrote me a birthday card—in script—and said, at the end, 'p.s. my mom always liked Sonny more.' And I was thinking, 'Oh he's still harboring it.'"
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A video of the unforgettable TV moment reveals that Letterman was indeed caught off guard by the remark, though he was quick to respond with a joke.
“For you folks at home who may have missed that, she said she thought I was an awfully nice guy,” the comedian quipped. Later in the interview, he admitted, “You know, with that assh*** remark, you kinda threw me off.”
“You’re the first person to call me that in person though,” Letterman added. “I’m sure they mutter that on the way out sometimes."
While it's not clear when the footage of Cher telling the Letterman story onstage was filmed, the singer's "Here We Go Again" world tour ran from 2018 to 2020. According to her official website , there are plans to resume the tour in 2024-2025.
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