Stephen Colbert reveals celebrity crush who absolutely stunned him on the Late Show
Stephen Colbert "didn't know what to do" with himself when he realised he was "wildly attracted" to a guest on the Late Show.
Stephen Colbert was surprised by how "wildly attracted" he was to Michelle Williams.
The Late Show host has admitted the former Manchester By The Sea star, 45, became his biggest celebrity crush after he met her during an interview on his iconic chat show back in 2016.
Speaking on the Strike Force Five podcast, he told fellow stars Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon: "I'll tell you who I did not expect to be wildly attracted to.
"I didn’t know what to do with myself. Because I don't — ehh I like this person's work, but I never thought of them as a bombshell.
"I did not know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on for the first time."
The 62-year-old star, who married wife Evelyn Colbert in 1993, admitted he was all over the place for their conversation on air.
He added: "She sat down across from me, and I went, 'F***, what is wrong with my head? I’d better not look directly at her for this entire interview!'"
Colbert revealed the reason he found himself so drawn to the former Dawson's Creek star.
He explained: "It was something about her vibe, her face, everything. She's so beautiful."
Michelle isn't the only star Colbert admitted to having "trouble with" when it came to getting distracted during interviews.
He quipped: "I used to have a Rachel Weisz problem. I've recovered. When Rachel Weisz would be on The Daily Show, I would leave the building for fear that I would say something stupid.
"I was afraid I would go [in a high-pitched voice] 'Hi! You were great in The Constant Gardener.'"
Colbert, who is preparing for the end of the Late Show next week after it was cancelled by CBS, previously opened up on how he was "completely taken" by wife Evelyn after meeting in line for the cinema in 1990.
Back in 2019, he recalled thinking: "'That's her. There's your wife. You're going to marry her'...
"There is absolutely, bar none, no one who comes close [to Evelyn].
"And the most harrowing idea would be that I would spend any part of my life without her because that would be a level of loneliness and irreplaceable, irredeemable emotional desolation that I could not possibly contemplate."
