David Letterman Recalls Last Meeting with Warren Zevon

In a new Rolling Stone article, David Letterman talks about his last meeting with Warren Zevon, who appeared on “Late Show” shortly before his 2003 death from cancer.

“Here’s a guy who had months to live and we’re making small talk. And as we’re talking, he’s taking his guitar strap and hooking it, wrapping it around, then he puts the guitar into the case and he flips the snaps on the case and says, `Here, I want you to have this, take good care of it.’ And I just started sobbing.

“He was giving me the guitar that he always used on the show. I felt like, `I can’t be in this movie, I didn’t get my lines.’ That was very tough,” Letterman said.