Greer Grammer is sharing particulars behind her difficult relationship along with her dad, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer — together with the second she says damage her essentially the most.
Throughout a latest look on the “Fairly Primary Podcast,” the Lethal Illusions actress, 33, mirrored on reconnecting with Kelsey after greater than a decade with little contact. Greer was 4 years previous when Kelsey left, and the 2 reconnected when she was 16 — nevertheless it took just a few extra years for a troublesome dialog to floor.
“[Grammer] was at all times my final identify,” Greer mentioned, noting that she stayed related to her father’s id even when he wasn’t round. “I suppose my dad did ask my mother — he instructed me this later — however he was like, ‘I instructed your mother… I mentioned it is perhaps higher so that you can not have my final identify. It will be simpler for you rising up.’”
It wasn’t till she was 19 that she realized about his request relating to her identify — and the affect was quick.
“I believe I used to be like 19 when he instructed me that and I began sobbing, as a result of to me that was just like the meanest factor you might ever say to anyone, like… ‘I knew I wasn’t gonna be in your life, so I instructed my mother it will in all probability be simpler so that you can not have my final identify.’”
Regardless of how painful the remark felt, Greer now acknowledges she will perceive the reasoning behind it. She later admitted the suggestion was “honest,” including that her dad was “not mistaken.”
Greer additionally cleared up a standard false impression — that she had no relationship along with her father in any respect till her teenagers. As an alternative, she remembers having “very particular” early reminiscences of him earlier than he “left.”
Their reconnection got here throughout an odd day with extraordinary timing. Whereas volunteering as Miss Teen Malibu at a Christmas tree lot, Greer immediately got here face-to-face along with her father once more.
“He got here as much as me and mentioned, ‘Are you Greer?’ And I mentioned, ‘Sure, I’m,’” she recalled. “Then he went, ‘I’m —.’ And I used to be like, ‘I do know who you’re. Duh.’”
That transient interplay opened the door to rebuilding their relationship. “That’s sort of what began our relationship,” she mentioned, sharing that they met for lunch every week later.
Greer admitted she needed to succeed in out immediately, however her mother instructed her to be affected person.
“It took a few days to name him, as a result of my mother was like, ‘Give them a while.’ I used to be able to name him that day, like, ‘Let’s do that factor. I bought a dad now, woohoo!’ She was sort of like, ‘Take a while to consider it over the weekend. Allow them to course of it as a household after which name,’” she defined.
