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Ted Danson Apologizes to Kelsey Grammer for Decades-Old Falling Out
Cheers actors Ted Danson and Kelsey Grammer have officially mended fences after a strained relationship apparently kept them at odds for over 30 years. The two men talked it out on the latest episode of Danson's Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast that he hosts with another alum of the long-running NBC sitcom, Woody Harrelson.
"This isn’t self-deprecating, but—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 told his former co-star, though he did not elaborate on what triggered the argument. "Yeah, you came and told me that one day," Grammer quietly recalled.
"And it’s stuck in both of our memories. 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," Danson continued. "No—I don’t feel like—I apologize to you and me that I sat back and didn’t, and I really do apologize."
For his part, Grammer, 69, seemed to have no hard feelings with Danson, 76, recalling a piece of wisdom The Good Place star told him when he hit a milestone birthday.
"You said something wonderful to me though, too, that I’ve always, I quote to other people," Grammer remembered. "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.' That was f--king brilliant."
Harrelson, 63, who was joining the conversation remotely, chimed in at that point to say: "That’s good."
"I always loved that. And I’ve repeated it. And my love for you has always been as easy as the day. You know, as easy as the sunrise," Grammer continued, to which Danson genuinely stated: "Mine to you."
"What an amazing thing that we, that time we all spent together," Danson reminisced. "You can go off in different directions, you can have different lives, but that bond, that love of making something really funny and really good and cracking each other up and going through life and still showing up. Like Jimmy [Cheers co-creagtor and director James Burrows] said, 'I don’t care what you crazy people do during the week. Just show up on shoot night and be funny. Just once, that's all I need.'"
Grammer, who currently works with Burrows on his Paramount+ Frasier revival, now in its second season, also recalled some advice that the 83-year-old had shared in a joint interview.
"He recently said, 'You got to have an oar in the water.’ And I’d never heard him express this before, but he said, ‘As long as everybody’s got their oar in the water and they’re pulling, then I’m happy," Grammer said. "I thought, 'Yeah, makes a lot of sense.’ And we’re still working together. I mean, he’s done four shows in the last bunch and it’s been great working with him."
While it certainly must be tough knowing the pair missed out on so many years they could have been friends; the touching reunion comes better late than never.