NEWS'I Just Started Sobbing': Kelsey Grammer's Daughter Greer Reveals the 'Meanest Thing' Her Dad Said to Her After 12-Year Estrangement
Greer Grammer shared the 'meanest thing' Kelsey Grammer ever said to her after their years of estrangement.
Dec. 30 2025, Published 7:54 a.m. ET
Kelsey Grammer’s daughter Greer Grammer is opening up about the complicated emotions surrounding her relationship with her famous father.
During a recent episode of the “Pretty Basic Podcast,” the 33-year-old Deadly Illusions actress shared the moment that left her most hurt after reconnecting with Kelsey following more than a decade apart.
Greer was just 4 years old when Kelsey, who shares Greer with stylist Barrie Buckner, left. The two later reconnected when Greer was 16.
Greer Grammer shared a painful moment from her past on a podcast.
"[Grammer] was always my last name. I guess my dad did ask my mom — he told me this later — but he was like, 'I told your mom... I said it might be better for you to not have my last name. It would be easier for you growing up,'" Greer said.
"I think I was like 19 when he told me that and I started sobbing, because to me that was like the meanest thing you could ever say to somebody, like... 'I knew I wasn't gonna be in your life, so I told my mom it would probably be easier for you to not have my last name.'"
While the comment deeply hurt her, Greer admitted she could understand where her father was coming from. She later acknowledged that the suggestion was "fair," adding that he was "not wrong."
Elsewhere in the conversation, Greer addressed the common misconception that she didn’t know her dad at all until she was a teenager. She shared that she does have some "very specific" memories of spending time with him before he "left."
The star said her father once suggested she shouldn’t have his last name.
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Their reconnection happened unexpectedly when Greer was doing community service as Miss Teen Malibu at a Christmas tree lot.
"He came up to me and said, 'Are you Greer?' And I said, 'Yes, I am,'" she recalled. "Then he went, 'I’m —." And I was like, 'I know who you are. Duh.'"
Greer and Kelsey Grammer reconnected when she was a teenager.
At the time, Kelsey was living in Malibu with then-wife Camille Grammer and their two children, Mason, 24, and Jude, 21. He also shares daughter Spencer, 42, with ex-wife Doreen Alderman, along with Faith, 12, Gabriel, 10, James, 8, and newborn Christopher with his current wife, Kayte Walsh.
"That's kind of what started our relationship," Greer said, noting that they met for lunch about a week later.
She admitted she was eager to call him right away, but her mom told her to be patient.
"It took a couple of days to call him, because my mom was like, 'Give them some time.' I was ready to call him that day, like, 'Let's do this thing. I got a dad now, woohoo!' She was kind of like, 'Take some time to think about it over the weekend. Let them process it as a family and then call,'" she explained.
Kelsey and Greer Grammer now have a good relationship.
Today, Greer said her relationship with her father is in a good place. While Kelsey helped pay for her college, she clarified that she doesn’t have a trust fund.
"I wish," Greer said.
Meanwhile, Kelsey has also been candid about his past as a parent. In a May interview, he admitted he’s still working to rebuild certain relationships.
"I have neglected a couple of the kids in my life, especially the first two," he told People. "I'm trying to make up for a little of it now. I'm still their dad, so you can always have [a] chance to show up."
