

"I do love the show," he said, per The Hollywood Reporter, "and it makes me feel bad that she is getting the impression that I somehow think she's just a talentless little fat chick."ĭunham had a sense of humor about it.

A few months later, he backtracked, saying he was a fan of "Girls" and that he wanted to apologize to her. In 2013, he called Dunham "a little fat girl who looks like Jonah Hill," according to E!. And Howard Stern, who publicly shamed women like Anna Nicole Smith and Carnie Wilson for their weight when they stopped by his studio, made his feelings on Dunham's appearance known.

The reality was I loved you, and I really felt strongly about you." Letterman mused to the Post that if Stern was saying sorry to him, there was probably "a pretty long list of people Howard must be apologizing to." The two are seemingly on great terms as of this writing, with Letterman guesting on Stern's SiriusXM show as recently as April 2020.īut not everyone was a fan. "I had betrayed your trust, and I was ashamed. I was angry with you, that you were on television, that you had an audience," he confessed on the latter. "I was just a young man full of rage, and I was angry. He said sorry on the " Late Show with David Letterman" in 2013 and on Letterman's Netflix show in 2018. Those remarks were foul enough that Stern apologized publicly - twice. "He said some unpleasant things about my wife and just various little things, and I just thought, 'What did I do to this guy?' " Letterman recalled in 2019. The two hung out socially and appeared on each other's shows, but things took a sour turn when Stern said "nasty things" about Letterman's then-girlfriend Regina Lasko on-air, per The Washington Post.
