On The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday, daytime’s resident funny gal grilled Adam Lambert about his headline-grabbing performance at last week’s 2009 American Music Awards, in which the ex-Idol kissed his male keyboardist, flipped off the audience, and led some very suggestive choreography.

Any regrets? Well, maybe a few…..

“I think in hindsight I look back on it and I go ok, maybe that wasn’t the best first impression to make again, the first second impression,” Adam told Ellen after his performance of “Whataya Want From Me.” “I mean I had fun up there, I had a good time, my dancers had fun and the band had fun. I respect people and feel like people walked away from that feeling disrespected. I would never intend to disrespect anybody. So that was not my intention.”

Adam added: “They gave me a great opportunity to close the AMA’s and I would never want to smack that gift force in the mouth. I think that they were taking a big leap of faith having me do that and unfortunately it didn’t work out as we all thought it would.”