While appearing as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the CNN news anchor—who shares co-parenting duties of son Wyatt with ex Benjamin Maisani—detailed a recent text Benjamin sent him about the 13-month-old’s milestones.
He should have lied and said, ‘Oh no, he’s not walking at all,’ so when I got home and he walked, we’d be like, ‘Oh my god! It’s the first walk.'” With Father’s Day right around the corner—marking the second for the television host—Anderson revealed that until his son’s birth, he didn’t truly have a connection to the holiday since his own dad passed away when he was 10.
“And yet, the interesting thing about having a child is it’s made me sort of connect with my dad and my mom’s past and my brother’s past in a way that I never really anticipated.