Kelsey Grammer
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586 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Dec
Kelsey Grammer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You take one step into it, the first sentence, the first word, and you're suddenly, you've broken through every time barrier in the world. You've pulled people out of the grave. You've re-embraced them again. And it's a wonderful thing.
Sure. Um, for a long time, it was very hard for me to think about Karen. And, uh, But I was excavating the tragedy. I was unearthing that a lot of the time. When I would reflect on her, I would reflect on what she suffered and what took place in her life and the people who were responsible.
And there were so many other things that sort of echoed through my mind that were not honorific, that didn't... celebrator that just sort of mourned her and I was sort of lost in a kind of a loop of mourning that was not uh it wasn't healthy it was it was it was but it was what I had to do I mean it's not that it was unhealthy it was just it's what I was given at the time and you know I was
I always loved the book of Matthew, you know, do what is given unto you. I was stuck in that. And it took me this book to actually find my way out into saying, oh, God, I'm so happy I knew you. Yeah, it was a great moment to understand that.
in the writing of it, that I was going to have this chance to be with my sister again and to hold her and to love her and to hold her hand and laugh at things together again. And it was a really extraordinary thing. It was a great, great life we had together, which is why it was so tragic to me. It was so hard for me for a long time to kind of wrestle out of that.
And I really didn't do it for a long time. And I think the message that came through was Karen saying, it's time. You need to... remember and live your life.
Well, I feel a lot lighter. I did actually get to drop a lot of grief. Grief is a heavy weight to continue to carry. It's very hard. And you suffer with this idea that, oh, by letting go of the grief, you're somehow letting go of them. But I learned through this book that that isn't the case.
By hanging on to the things that are good, actually, I'm closer to her as I was when I was with her, when she was with us. And so she is with us again. That's the key. So it's been great. And she's with my family now. I'm with Kate. And Kate, you know, dealt with me writing this for two and a half years. And...
When I finally turned to Kate, and this always chokes me up a little bit, but I'm getting more used to saying it, but she's such an extraordinary woman. When I said, I finished it, I turned and said, it's done. And she said, I've missed you.
But it's a very rewarding life to care this much about things. So it's okay.
Well, Kate and I met in what is one of the great fantasy meetings of all time. I mean, almost every guy I meet says, wow, you lived the dream. So we met on a flight to London. She was working for Virgin Atlantic, and she was part of the cabin crew. She looked good in red.
We struck up a nice conversation, and I was at a very big crossroads in my life. I knew my life was changing. I'd gotten this—I'd just finished doing this show called Hank, which was—and we always say this now. This is for the next book. This is the story. Stuff like this is for the next book. So I'd finished filming this show called Hank. which was a terrible show. It wasn't funny.
It was supposed to be funny. It was just ghastly. And I had actually called Peter over to Warner Brothers, and I said, Peter, we've got to put a bullet in this thing. I mean, we have to kill this show. He said, I can't. I can't kill it. We've got obligations to foreign sales and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I thought, please, please.
And sure enough, the next day, Steve from ABC called and said, I'm putting a bullet in this show. It's got to go. I was like, thank God. And 35 minutes later, I got a call from Barry Weisler in New York City saying, I got this show. We're going to bring it over to Broadway. I want you to be in it. Fly to London. Can you get on a plane in a couple of days and go see it?
And we'll talk about you doing it there. And that was it. And I knew my life was changing. I thought, it's changing. And then I met Kate. And recently, we went to... It was one of the, there was just an invited screening of a couple of the Chosen series, and we saw our friends there, and a guy walks up to me and says, hey, you remember me?
And I was, you know, loathe to say no, because I don't like to hurt anybody's feelings, but I did not really remember him. But then he said, I was on that flight when you and Kate met.
I started thinking, I remember sort of chatting a bit with some guys like, you know, by the bar. Kate was in and out a bit. She was doing her job. But he told me that I said to him, I think I'm going to marry that girl.
I didn't really remember saying that to him, but it did make sense to me. I remember thinking it at one point. So maybe that's what happened. So I got to London. These are all off-glides, but they're fun. I was staying at the Mandarin Oriental. And it used to be the Hyde Park Hotel, I think. Maybe I shouldn't mention anything else, except I walked in. I stopped at the concierge.
The concierge said, hello. Oh, hello, Mr. Grandma. And there was a girl. She was like 10 feet tall and with a Russian accent. And I thought, whoa. And he looked at me as she walked away. And he said, anything at all you need, Mr. Grandma, anything. Oh.
always that's what he's saying okay well thank you thank you nonetheless and then uh kate and i connected uh by phone and decided we would meet for a drink and uh i said well let's have a drink in the in the bar at uh
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