Just in time for Mother’s Day, Kelsey Grammer is sharing how his late mom’s love has endured… from beyond the grave.
In an emotional interview on the The Jamie Kern Lima Show, the Cheers star revealed that he believes the spirit of his late mother, Sally, helped resolve a fight between him and his wife, Kayte Walsh, to whom he’s been married since 2011.
“We had a great moment when Kayte and I were having a fight when we were in our early [days], our first year together basically,” he told the podcast host. Grammer explained that they were living in his mother’s old home at the time, and had had what he described as “a bit of a tussle.”
“We climbed into bed kind of mad with each other, and I heard this huge bang in the living room and said, ‘What the heck?'” he recalled. “So I reached out the bed, and I grabbed a golf club that I kept there for that reason.”
Grammer and his wife briefly argued about who was going to go figure out what the noise was, with the actor and producer eventually taking one for the team. He told Lima that he then went out into the living room, and he found the TV on, which was “weird,” because he knew he turned it off before going to bed.
“I looked around a little bit, turned it off, and thought, ‘Thanks mom.’ You know? ‘Don’t go to bed angry with each other,'” he said of his takeaway from the spooky encounter.
At that point, he said he went back to his wife, who asked him, “What did your mom smell like?” Here, he got visibly choked up as he recalled that his wife asked him that because while he was investigating the noise “she had smelled flowers” in the room. “It was really something, really something. I thought, ‘This is real, this is not something heretical going on,'” an emotion Grammer told Lima.
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Kayte Walsh and Kelsey Grammer attend a press junket for ‘Frasier’ in 2024
However, he’s not bothered if people believe his story or not. “I don’t try to convince people they should think the way I think or see God the way I see God or experience this universe the way I experience it, but I will not deny my faith,” he said.
Grammer’s interview on The Jamie Kern Lima Show comes on the heels of the release of his new book, Karen: A Brother Remembers, in which he grapples with his sister’s kidnapping and murder in 1975 at age 19 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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His mom’s spirit isn’t the only one he thinks he’s encountered. Elsewhere in their interview, Grammer tells Lima about visitations from his late sister as well, and how she gave him permission to share her story, his belief in psychics and mediums, carrying the weight of grief and letting it go, and more.
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