In January Couric dished to late night host Jimmy Kimmel that she had once gone on a date with King, and it was nothing short of awkward.

"We're driving home and I see we're going over Memorial Bridge and that's not the way back to my apartment," she said to Kimmel. "So I said, 'Larry, where  are we going?' He goes, 'My place.' And I was like, 'Oh, mother of God. Oh  God.'"

"He lunged," Couric continued, about King's attempt to kiss her at his apartment.

Well...Larry surprised Katie on her show to set the record straight yesterday.

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