Kelsey Grammer Explains 30-Year Feud with Ted Danson

Kelsey Grammer Explains 30-Year Feud with Ted Danson

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Former Cheers costars Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson have been rekindling a friendship after 30 years of fighting — but Grammer has just now finally revealed what started the feud in the first place.

Danson, 77, and Grammer, 69, first reconciled on Danson’s podcast, Everybody Knows Your Name, which he co-hosts with a third Cheers alum, Woody Harrelson. Grammer appeared in October, when the pair talked through their falling out but did not say what started it. He recently revealed to the New York Post what sparked the decades-long fight.

Kelsey Grammar, famous for his role as Frasier photographed June 9, 2005 in the Lucy Bungalow, his office on the Paramount Studios lot, Los Angeles, California.

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“It got a little blown out of proportion,” he said in a Friday, January 31 article in the Post. “There really wasn’t an argument. It was at a time in my life when I was actually going through a lot of self-doubt, self-loathing, honestly.”

“It was when I was drinking a lot,” continued Grammer, who went on to star in his own Cheers spin-off, Frasier. “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.’ And I said, ‘OK, I respect that.’ And that actually was sort of it.”

Danson told Grammer during the October 23 episode of his podcast, “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.”

“Yeah, you came and told me that one day,’ Grammer replied.

Danson apologized to his old friend, admitting, “I missed out on the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer, and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing.” Grammer accepted the apology and returned, “I really do apologize.”

Cheers aired from September 30, 1982 to May 20, 1993. Danson played owner/bartender (and former Red Sox player) Sam Malone, whose psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane, was played by Grammer. The two costars first reunited at the Primetime Emmy Awards January 15, 2024.

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