"The Late Show with David Letterman"
February 19, 1996

GA= Gillian Anderson
KL= Kathy Lee Gifford
DL= David Letterman

Excerpts:
DL: "Our next guest stars as the uh beautiful and highly intelligent Agent Scully on the very popular series The X-Files. Ladies and Gentlemen, here's Gillian Anderson"
Gillian walks out with loud cheering (mainly male in origin). She is wearing a full length black skirt, slit high up to her thigh in the front. Her top is long sleeved, and soft pink. It shows just a wee bit of midriff. Letterman walks out to greet Gillian and shakes her hand. She then proceeds to shake KL's hand, who then moves to the second seat. Gillian sits down.
DL: "Wow! The crowd goes crazy. Thank you very much for coming."
GA: "Thank You."
DL: "You, uh, you grew up in what part of the country?"
GA: "Grand Rapids, Michigan."
DL: "Yea, Lovely..."
GA: "Your intimate with Grand Rapids, Michigan I hear?"
DL: "That's where our home office is. What was life like for you while you were growing up there?"
GA: "It was, uh...it was different. It was normal and it was strange."
DL: "You say it was different and normal and strange. Uh, how so? How do you reconcile those things?"
GA: "Grand Rapids I guess is pretty normal, I, I was strange."

Laughter and cheering. GA and KL converse unintelligibly.

DL: "Uh...and was it a good kind of strange, or a not so good kind of strange?"
GA: "It was good for me. I got my kicks. I wasn't very good in school. You know shaving cream on the lockers, that kind of stuff. I guess. I was voted most likely to be arrested."
DL: "Wow. Nice going."

Laughter and cheers from the audience.

GA: "Yeah."
DL: "And did you fulfill that promise?"
GA: "Yes I did, graduation night as a matter of fact."
DL: "And what were you doing when you got arrested?"
GA: "I was attempting to break into the school and glue the locks. So that come Monday nobody would be able to get in."
DL: "Nobody could get in. And more of a prank then anything else."
GA: "Yeah, more of a prank."
DL: "And was there alcohol involved?"

Loud laughter from crowd. Gillian smiles.

GA: "I had been drinking."
DL: "How long did you go away?"

Audience laughs. GA laughs.

GA: "Not - Just a few hours. I got bailed out. My boyfriend bailed me out."
DL: "Uh, yeah. And tell me about your boyfriend. What kind of guy was he?"
GA: "Ahhh...He was, uh, he was 10 years older than I was. I was 16."
DL: "16 and you get a 26 year old boyfriend."
GA: "Yeeees."
DL: "Wow. How do you get a deal like that?"
GA: "Well, how do I get...I guess you have to be unemployed, in a punk rock band and.... - "
KL: "And easy." (Can you believe she said that!)
GA: "And easy." (Looks at KL and smiles.)

David and crowd are laughing. Whistles can be heard.

KL: "Oh yeah. Ooooh yeah." (Pats GA on the shoulder.) "I like this woman. Didn't you always say you were psychic in an earlier...? (David cuts her off.)
DL: (to GA now) "Which one of you were easy? Well I guess -" (laughing)
GA: "Which one of us was easy? He was."
DL: "There you go, sure. Uhhhh...Are your folks proud of you?"

GA laughs loudly along with the audience.

GA: "Yes, yes they are. They're relieved I should say."