Kelsey Grammer Shares Reason for 30-Year Feud With Ted Danson After ‘Cheers’

CHEERS, from left, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, 1982-93 (1992 photo).
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It wasn’t always fun times and beers on the set of Cheers. Two of the show’s stars, Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson, infamously had a falling out that lasted over 30 years. Now, Grammer has opened up about their feud, including what it was about and how they mended things.

“It got a little blown out of proportion,” Grammer shared with the New York 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.”

FRASIER, from left: Kelsey Grammer, Ted Danson, 'The Show Where Sam Shows Up', (Season 2, episode 216, aired February 21, 1995), 1993-2004

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“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,’” Grammer continued. “And I said, ‘Okay, I respect that.’ And that actually was sort of it. 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.”

The pair reunited last year on Danson’s podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name, which he cohosts with another Cheers star, Woody Harrelson. At the time, Danson took responsibility for the feud with Grammer.

Kelsey Grammer, Rhea Perlman, and Ted Danson speak onstage during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California

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He explained, “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. It’s stuck in both of our memories. But I feel like 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.”

Grammer welcomed the apology and added, “My love for you has always been as easy as the day. As easy as the sunrise.”

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