Kelsey Grammer looked every bit the doting dad as he attended the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors with his 13-year-old daughter, Faith.
The Frasier star, 70, donned a classic black tuxedo for the prestigious event, held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, December 7. Faith, Kelsey’s daughter with wife Kayte Walsh, looked adorable in a sleeveless dress decorated with pastel-colored flowers, wearing her long brown hair down for the special occasion.The father-and-daughter outing comes shortly after Kelsey’s older daughter, Greer, 33, shared details of her 12-year estrangement from him, spanning from age 4 until she reunited with him at 16.
Kelsey Grammer has eight children in total. He shares his eldest daughter, Spencer, 42, with his first wife, Doreen Alderman. He then welcomed Greer, 33, with then-girlfriend Barrie Buckner in 1992. With his third wife, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Camille Grammer, Kelsey had daughter Mason, 24, and son Jude, 21.
With his current wife, Kayte Walsh, Kelsey has four children: Faith, 13; sons Kelsey Gabriel, 11, Auden James, 9; and newborn Christopher, whose birth he announced in October.
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During a recent appearance on the Pretty Basic Podcast, Greer recalled the moment she unexpectedly bumped into her dad at a Christmas tree lot where she was working at age 16, after not seeing him for 12 years.
Greer explained that she had joked with her boss about the possibility of Kelsey stopping by. To her surprise, he did accompanied by his then-wife Camille, 57, and daughter Mason.
“It was so interesting that we had talked about it, and I was like, ‘Yeah, he’s probably not coming,’” Greer said. “Then towards the end of my day, I was getting ready to leave, and I looked up to see someone come in and it was him, Camille, and my little sister Mason, who was like six or seven. You could collectively feel… maybe it was just me, but I felt everybody’s breath just go [mimes breath being sucked in].”
Despite not seeing her father for more than a decade, Greer and her mother, Barrie, lived in Malibu, California just like Kelsey and his family.
“It’s a very famous name, but if you live there, it’s like a very small town, close-knit community. Everybody knows everybody,” Greer explained. “So everyone knows all the drama. People were just like, ‘Oh my God.’ And this guy why can’t I remember his name? It wasn’t Jeff, and I loved him so much he ran the Kiwanis Club. He came over and said, ‘Hey, if you want to leave, go take lunch, or step out for a moment, you can. You can come back, or if you want to leave, you can leave. We won’t cut your hours. I’ll fully sign off that you were here. If you don’t want to be here, you can go.’”
Despite the offer, Greer decided to stay, noting, “If anyone’s going to feel uncomfortable in this situation or feel like they need to leave, it’s not going to be me because I didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Like, I was a kid,” she said. “If anyone’s going to feel shame, guilt, or awkwardness in this situation, it’s not going to be me.”
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Eventually, Kelsey and Greer talked and exchanged numbers, which led to the rekindling of their relationship.
“That’s kind of what started our relationship,” she said, adding that she and Kelsey “have a good relationship now.”
