Kelsey Grammer reveals real reason he and Ted…
Dr. Crane’s clarifying.
Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson not too long ago mirrored on their days on the Bull & Finch Pub — revealing that that they had a falling out for practically 30 years. Now, Grammer is clarifying what truly went down between the 2.
“It got a little blown out of proportion. There really wasn’t an argument. It was at a time in my life when I was actually going through some, a lot of sort of self-doubt, self-loathing, honestly,” the “Frasier” alum, 69, defined completely to the Post, whereas selling his new movie “Wish You Were Here.”
“It was when I was drinking a lot and Ted had just come up and said, ‘You know, I’m kind of mad at you that sometimes you don’t show up ready to go, you know?’ And I said, ‘Okay, I respect that.’ And that actually was sort of it,” he defined.
Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson on “Cheers” on November 3, 1988. NBCUniversal through Getty Images
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin, Woody Harrelson as Woody Boyd, Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli, Ted Danson as Sam Malone on “Cheers.” NBCUniversal through Getty Images
“One for the Road” Episode 25 with “Cheers” forged Ted Danson as Sam Malone, Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli, Woody Harrelson as Woody Boyd, Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin, Tom Berenger as Don Santry, Kirsty Alley as Rebecca Howe, Shelley Long as Diane Chambers, George Wendt as Norm Peterson. NBCUniversal through Getty Images
“Now, maybe what happened for Ted was he stepped away from what might have been a better friendship. Maybe he just had to protect himself. I don’t really know. But, I said, ‘thanks.’ We were fine with that.”
In Oct. 2024, the previous co-stars reunited on Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. The “Three Men and a Little Lady” star introduced up his previous gripe, however didn’t reveal what induced their strained friendship.
“This isn’t self-deprecating, but it’s — I feel like I got stuck a little bit with you during the ‘Cheers’ years. I have a memory of getting angry at you once,” Danson stated on the time.
Kelsey Grammer talking completely with the New York Post. New York Post
Ted Danson and Kelsey Grammer on the 1988 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. FilmMagic, Inc
“Yeah, you came and told me that one day,” Grammer replied.
“And it’s stuck in both of our memories,” continued Danson. “But I feel like, f–k, I don’t know. I missed out on the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing, and I almost feel like apologizing to you.”
“No — I don’t feel like — I apologize to you and me that I sat back, you know, and didn’t, and I really do apologize,” Danson went on.
“You said something wonderful to me though, too, that I’ve always, I quote to other people,” Grammer revealed. “When I turned 40, you came up and you said, ‘You know what it means, don’t you? Now that you’re 40, it means you’re finally worth having a conversation with.’”
“Cheers” aired for 11 seasons and ran 270 episodes from 1982 to 1993.
Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson starred on “Cheers,” which ran for 11 seasons. NBCUniversal through Getty Images
Kelsey Grammer visitor stars on Ted Danson’s CBS comedy “Becker” in 2003. CBS
Danson, 77, performed bar proprietor Sam Malone, whereas Grammer performed Dr. Frasier Crane and Harrelson, 63, portrayed Woody Boyd.
Some of the forged — which additionally included Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Shelley Long and the late Kirstie Alley — reunited on the 2024 Emmys. But Grammer insists a revival won’t ever occur.
“Not a revival, certainly, because there’s just too many disparate elements that have to kind of come dancing together. And it reflects a time in our sort of culture that doesn’t really exist anymore. I mean, maybe there is a bar scene still. I’m just not aware of it anymore,” he instructed the Post, laughing. “I sort of left that scene behind me some time ago.”
Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson in “The Proposal” on “Cheers” on September 25, 1986. NBCUniversal through Getty Images
Kelsey Grammer, Rhea Perlman, and Ted Danson communicate onstage during the seventy fifth Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater in LA on January 15, 2024. WireImage
“‘Cheers’ will not come back,” he doubled down. “I mean, Jimmy Burrows has always said, ‘No, that bar doesn’t exist anymore.’ So, okay, it’s not there. It would still be relevant for the show.”
Despite not returning to “where everybody knows” his title, Grammer reprised his position of Dr. Crane within the Paramount+ sequence “Frasier” — and has nothing however love for Danson and the gang.
“I’ve always thought of him with the most loving kind of remembrance and fondness. Same with Woody. I mean, you know, Woods and I have actually stayed in touch a bit more than Ted and I have. That’s still an active sort of friendship. And we were emailing just last week,” he famous. “I don’t see the other boys very much.”
He quipped: “I bumped into George Wendt the other, a few months ago at some signing thing, and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m never doing this again.’”
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