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Ten years after a former 'Late Night With David Letterman' writer wrote a story excoriating the host for his treatment of women on the show.

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00:00David Letterman is now apologizing to a woman who accused him of sexual favoritism

00:04nearly 10 years ago. Comedy writer Nell Scavel wrote a follow-up piece in Vanity

00:10Fair to her viral 2009 story, Letterman and Me, where she discussed Letterman's

00:14treatment of women on late night, now revealing that she recently met with the

00:19host where he apologized for his behavior. Scavel says Letterman expressed his

00:23regret for how female writers and other staffers were treated on the show,

00:27telling Scavel it was sloppiness. According to the writer, Letterman admitted that he

00:32didn't read Letterman and Me when it was initially published, which he says is because

00:36he was working to keep his marriage from falling apart. But according to Scavel, the host

00:40told her when he did finally read the article, he was shocked, saying, quote,

00:45The other night I read the piece that you wrote 10 years ago and I thought, holy shit, this is so

00:49disturbing. And sadly, a perspective that I did not have because the only perspective I had

00:54was in here, gesturing to himself. In Letterman and Me, the comedy writer said that as the

01:00second ever woman hired to late nights writing staff, she experienced a hostile work

01:04environment for women. She recalls rumors that Letterman was having relationships with

01:08female staffers and that those female staffers accumulated extra power in the office and that

01:14she was paid extra attention as a woman on staff. In her recent conversation with

01:18Letterman, Scavel shared with him that she believed her comedy career suffered because of

01:22writing Letterman and Me and that in the last 10 years has been viewed as a prig in

01:26writers' rooms. After their conversation, Scavel reports, Letterman reached out to two

01:31women who should have been writers on the show and apologized to them as well. For more on this

01:35story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.