Ted Danson is clearing the air about his relationship along with his “Cheers” co-star Kelsey Grammer.
The “A Man on the Inside” star, 77, addressed his 30-year-long rift with Grammer, 70, on a latest episode of Howie Mandel’s “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast, trying to make clear his earlier remarks on the topic.
On an episode of his and fellow “Cheers” actor Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast final October, Danson spoke with Grammer and instructed him,”I missed out on the final 30 years of Kelsey Grammer, and I really feel prefer it’s my dangerous, my doing, and I nearly really feel like apologizing to you.”
Referring to the dialog, Mandel instructed Grammer, “I didn’t know that you were on the outs with Kelsey.”
Danson was fast to answer, “I wasn’t.”
He added, “You know what — sorry. How far do I wanna go?” the “Good Place” star paused and requested himself.
“Go all the way,” Mandel insisted.
“I wasn’t,” Danson repeated. The Emmy-winner defined that his relationship along with his co-star turned strained in direction of the tip of their run on “Cheers” after he and the forged staged an intervention for Grammer due to how closely he was utilizing medication and alcohol on the time.
However after the intervention, he and Grammer — who has since been sober for years — had a tense change.
“Finally I went up to his dressing room and I said, ‘I’ve told you how much I love you […] but I have not told you how f—king pissed off I am at you. I’m so angry at you and I felt the need to say that to be real,’” Danson recalled telling Grammer.
The “Boss” actor “took it well and all of that but it was a moment,” Danson stated. “And then … Life went on.”
Danson added that after “Cheers” ended, the pair noticed every “here or there” however “very rarely.”
He defined, “It felt like probably because I hadn’t completed that moment. And I had walked away without it being really complete. So maybe that’s why I didn’t reach out to him or whatever. I don’t know. So it was very simple. In our podcast, it was a very simple conversation.”
Reflecting on his dialog with Grammer in October, Danson stated, “I think what happened to me was in the room, talking to him, it was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m really having the best time talking to you.’”
“It was — it was so much fun to be around Kelsey that I went, ‘Oh shoot, I’ve wasted these 30 years of no Kelsey,’” Danson confessed.
“So it really wasn’t like I was saying, ‘Boy, was I pissed at you and I held a grudge and all of that.’ That’s not what happened. It really was: ‘I’m having so much fun. I wish I hadn’t let these years go by without reaching out.’”
Danson additionally shared that although Grammer requested him “several times over the years” to visitor star on “Frasier,” he ceaselessly stated no as a result of he didn’t know the right way to play his “Cheers” character Sam Malone in his 60s or 70s.
“It’s amusing to be an aging adolescent when you’re in your 30s, 40s, but not when you in your 70s,” Danson stated. “So I thought, I don’t know know how do that.”
The choice was “not because I was angry at Kelsey or anything,” he identified.
Danson did make one look on “Frasier,” popping up in an episode throughout Season 2 in 1995.
The present ended its run in 2004 however was revived by Paramount+ in 2023 for two extra seasons earlier than being cancelled in January. Grammer is presently trying to discover “Frasier” a house for one more season. Ought to he achieve success, Danson would now fortunately reprise his function as Malone.
“If he came back and he asked me to do an episode or something, yeah, I would,” Danson stated.
Danson’s latest feedback would align with Grammer, who completely revealed to the Put up why they’d their fallout years in the past.
“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,” he stated in January. “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. 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.”
