Larry King is going public with the news that he has a son -- Larry King Jr., no less -- he didn't acknowledge for 33 years.
The son -- from a brief, previous marriage to Annette Kaye -- appeared for the first time with King on "Larry King Live" this week.
"I knew there was a Larry King Jr. out there, I'd heard that, but I didn't know he was mine. The marriage was very short and she told me if it's a boy, I'm gonna name him Larry King Jr.," King, 75, told The Post. "Then I never heard again."
Larry Jr. was born in November 1961.
Why had he never sought out the son? "My life was in a swirl then. I had other children," he explained, alluding to son Andy and daughter Chaia. "I know there was a doubt in my mind that I had a son."
King, who's publicizing his new memoir, "Larry King: My Remarkable Journey," says he met Larry Jr. 15 years ago, after Annette, who was dying of lung cancer, called and assured him that the young man was indeed his son.
"I didn't think about it," he said. "I never heard from him, never heard from his mother. Never heard.
"I sort of put it away until that day [Annette] called," he said.
Did King feel guilty over not telling anyone about Larry Jr.'s existence all those years?
"In retrospect, I should've said to people, 'You know, there's a chance there's a guy out there with my name who's my son,' " he said yesterday.
"I couldn't call it guilt . . . I don't know what it is. Maybe a wonderment -- but not guilt."
On the show, he says he told some family and friends about finding Larry Jr. but never publicly acknowledged him before the book was published.
Larry Jr. is married, with three children of his own. He works now as the head of King's heart disease foundation in California.
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