Dr. Crane’s clarifying.
In October, Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson mirrored on their days on the Bull & Finch Pub — revealing that that they had a falling out and didn’t converse 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 a lot of self-doubt, self-loathing, honestly,” the “Frasier” alum, 69, completely instructed The Publish whereas selling his new movie “Wish You Were Here.”
“It was when I was drinking a lot. 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,” he defined.
“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 October, the previous co-stars reunited on Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. The “Three Men and a Baby” star introduced up his previous gripe with Grammer, 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 instructed Grammer on his podcast.
“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 … I apologize to you and me that I sat back, you know, and didn’t … and I really do apologize,” Danson stated.
“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, operating 270 episodes, from 1982 to 1993.
Danson, 77, performed bar proprietor Sam Malone, whereas Grammer performed Dr. Frasier Crane and Harrelson, 63, portrayed Woody Boyd.
A few of the solid — which additionally included Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Shelley Lengthy and the late Kirstie Alley — reunited on the 2024 Emmys. However 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 Publish, laughing. “I sort of left that scene behind me some time ago.”
“‘Cheers’ will not come back,” he doubled down. “I mean, Jimmy Burrows has always said, ‘No, that bar doesn’t exist anymore.’”
Regardless of not returning to “where everybody knows” his title, Grammer reprised his position of Fraiser within the Paramount+ revival of his titular present — and has nothing however love for Danson.
“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 a few months ago at some signing thing, and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m never doing this again.’”
