Kelsey is father to eight children across numerous relationships. One of those children is actor Greer Grammer, who you’ve probably seen in TV shows like Awkward and The Goldbergs.
In a recent appearance on the Pretty Basic podcast, Greer claimed that, even though her father was in her life when she was very young, from the age of 5 to 16, she didn’t see Kelsey at all.
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“The biggest misconception about me, and I never know how to talk about it except to just trauma dump, is that I didn’t know my dad until I was 16,” she told hosts Alicia Marie and Remi Cruz.
“My dad left when I was 4, and then I didn’t meet him again until I was 16,” Greer explained. “Technically, I saw him once when I was 11, and I ran. It was in a blockbuster. I ran away.”
“It’s very interesting because I do have very specific memories of my dad from when I was young,” she added. “I remember going to Frasier at one point and wondering why the girls in the back kept redoing the scene…Then I think my mom took me out of the audience because I was loud.”
“I have a memory of going to a party at my dad’s. I have a memory of him going to my preschool play of The Wizard of Oz, which he also remembers, because we’ve talked about it…But those are all very specific. I can see them when I think about them, but after that, I don’t know.”
Greer went on to reveal that it wasn’t until she ran into Kelsey at a Christmas tree lot at the age of 16 that she reconnected with her father again. “He came up to me and said, ‘Are you Greer?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I am.’ And then he went, ‘I’m – .’ And I was like, ‘I know who you are. Duh.’”
Since that moment of reuniting, Kelsey and Greer have appeared in public together multiple times since. She even appeared on the second and final season of the Frasier revival last year. Here’s a picture of them in 2017:
Still, Greer admitted that she is working through the estrangement in therapy. “Of course, my therapist was like, ‘Do you remember when you knew that your dad wasn’t a part of your life anymore? Did your mom ever sit you down?’” she said. “And I was like, ‘I don’t think so.’ She was like, ‘You should ask her about that.’ I was like, ‘No. I think my brain’s probably blocking it out for a reason.’”
You can watch the entire interview here.
