“You know in life what’s a good thing to do and a bad thing to do. I did a bad thing,” Grant told the late night host at the time. The rest of the interview remained lighthearted with Grant explaining how the arrest impacted his personal life and the media frenzy surrounding it.
“As someone who asked questions for a living, how did you come up with that? Because it was perfect,” Wallace asked Leno.He continued to explain how prior to Grant’s appearance he had a conversation with the actor to inquire whether he was still set to make an appearance despite the media storm surrounding his arrest.
“You know, he was great. Nowadays, you’d have 100 handlers. I called him up, and I said, ‘You still in for tomorrow?’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘You know, I effed up. And, you know, it’s my fault.'” When Leno informed him that he had to ask about it, he recalled Grant saying “I get it.” “He showed up, didn’t have a publicist like nowadays, somebody explaining it who was on Xanax. So none of that nonsense, you know, and he was honest about it,” Leno said.